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March 10, 2010

Lobsterman shooting trial continues

The Associated Press

ROCKLAND — The trial continues for a Maine lobsterman charged with shooting a fellow fisherman in the neck in a dispute over fishing territory.

Sixty-eight-year-old Vance Bunker has pleaded not guilty to two counts of elevated aggravated assault, criminal threatening and reckless conduct in last July's shooting of Christopher Young.

The Bangor Daily News reports that Young's half brother, Weston Ames, testified on Monday that Bunker fired the gun first at him but missed and then shot Young.

The shooting took place on a wharf on Matinicus, which is 20 miles offshore and is the most remote of Maine's 15 year-round island communities.

Bunker's daughter, Janan Miller, is being tried on a reckless conduct charge for her role in the incident.

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