Authorities have charged a Massachusetts man in the fatal shooting of a New Hampshire man earlier this week in Waterbury.
Vermont State Police arrested Fabrice Rumama, 20, of Springfield, Mass., early Saturday morning, the agency said in a press release. He is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Shawn Spiker, 34, of Croydon, N.H.
The incident took place at the Kneeland Flats Trailer Park in Waterbury on Monday, Oct. 14, at around 12:45 a.m., police previously said. Two men were shot inside of a trailer: Spiker, who died as a result of multiple gunshot wounds, and Michael S. Perry, 57, of Waterbury, who was injured.
As of Tuesday, Perry was in stable condition at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington.
At the time of the shooting, police called it “an isolated, targeted event.” At a press conference Monday at the state police’s headquarters in Waterbury, Maj. Dan Trudeau, who heads the agency’s criminal division, said he believed the two victims were acquaintances and that others had been present at the scene.
According to Saturday morning’s press release, Rumama was charged in Spiker’s killing, but nobody has been charged in the shooting of Perry. State police said the investigation was ongoing.
Ruamama was being held without bail and was expected to be arraigned Monday afternoon in Barre.
