BRATTLEBORO — Local police have identified a man from Hartford, Connecticut, as the person killed Aug. 19 during a shooting at this town’s Great River Terrace housing complex.
Michael R. Ledbetter Jr., 32, died as the result of an incident still under investigation, authorities said.
Nicholas Baker, 34, of Brattleboro told police he was in his apartment when Ledbetter entered.
Baker claimed a pistol fell out of Ledbetter’s pocket, which Baker picked up and fired in self-defense.
But a subsequent search of Baker’s apartment found a box with a sticker for the same model pistol and serial number as the one seized after the shooting, prosecutors wrote in court papers.
Authorities have charged Baker with possessing both a firearm as a convicted felon and fentanyl with intent to distribute.
— Kevin O’Connor
