CHELSEA, Maine — The Kennebec County Sheriff's Office says a man who reported being shot by someone Monday morning made a false public report when the police investigation determined the gunshot wound to be self-inflicted.
Around 7:45 a.m. on Monday, the Kennebec County Sheriff's Office responded to Wellman Road in Chelsea after a 59-year-old man reported he had been shot in the leg by someone from the woods.
The man, identified as Dean Ouellette, suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was transported to a local hospital by Augusta EMS personnel.
Police recovered a .22 caliber revolver at the scene; there was no evidence of anyone else in the area and the neighbors did not hear a gunshot, police say.
After careful analysis of the evidence at the scene and evidence seized from Ouellette, police determined the gunshot wound was self-inflicted. Police say the incident took place at his residence on Wellman Road and there was no one else home at the time.
On Tuesday, Ouellette was summonsed for making a false police report or alarm, a class D crime.
