'I'm sorry babe': Man unloads .45-caliber handgun into longtime girlfriend, told 911 he 'would never do this,' but when cops arrive he screams lawyer, police say

A antheral successful Maine is down bars aft sidesplitting his woman successful a barrage of gunfire, according to instrumentality enforcement successful the Pine Tree State.

Austin Doucette, 24, stands accused of murder implicit the decease of 23-year-old Mikayla Rose DeSantis, according to the Maine State Police.

The incidental occurred astatine the Left Bank condominiums successful Carrabassett Valley – a tiny municipality located immoderate 120 miles northbound of Portland.

A 911 telephone was placed astir 7:30 p.m. connected Sunday, according to instrumentality enforcement. The Franklin County Regional Communications Center fielded the study astir the shooting and authorities constabulary responded.

Paramedics met DeSantis and Doucette on Route 27 and recovered her suffering from aggregate gunshot wounds. She was rushed to adjacent MaineHealth Franklin Hospital successful Farmington. The unfortunate was past taken successful a chopper to Maine Medical Center successful Portland, wherever she died from her injuries.

The suspect himself made the exigency call, according to tribunal documents obtained by Portland-based CBS affiliate WGME. Police described Doucette arsenic "very hysterical passim the telephone telephone arsenic helium was yelling and shouting."

"I can't judge I did this," the caller said astatine 1 point, constabulary claim. Then, Doucette allegedly told the dying woman: "I'm atrocious babe."

The caller besides mentioned a weapon and said it had accidentally gone off, according to instrumentality enforcement. After that, the suspect allegedly told the dispatcher helium was leaving with the unfortunate to get aid.

Moments later, the archetypal telephone terminated, instrumentality enforcement said. Then, a fewer minutes aft that, the antheral called 911 again.

"My woman has a gunshot wound," the caller told the dispatcher during the 2nd call, adding: "It accidentally went off."

The communicative of an mishap appeared accordant successful some calls.

The suspect identified the unfortunate by her archetypal sanction and said she had been changeable successful the "stomach/abdomen area," according to police.

"I would ne'er bash this," helium allegedly told the dispatcher aboriginal connected successful the 2nd telephone earlier adding, "I don't privation to spell to jail."

When instrumentality enforcement archetypal arrived astatine the residence, Doucette was speeding distant from the country of the crime, according to police. He was arrested during a postulation halt the nighttime aft the shooting.

Both the slain pistillate and the suspect worked unneurotic astatine the Sugarloaf Mountain skis resort. They hailed from Connecticut.

Meanwhile, detectives besides reviewed different 911 telephone made by Doucette's father's girlfriend.

During the call, the pistillate allegedly said she heard the suspect uncover helium was being chased by the cops, that thing had happened to DeSantis, and that helium was going to termination himself. Doucette's begetter told him not to bash it, the pistillate said, earlier hanging up upon learning that the suspect had been stopped by constabulary portion she was connected the line.

Inside the defendant's car, Carrabassett Valley constabulary officers recovered reddish brownish stains successful the backmost seat, on with a receipt and a cellphone, according to instrumentality enforcement. Doucette aboriginal said the telephone apt belonged to DeSantis.

During a custodial interrogation with authorities police, the suspect said the unfortunate was his girlfriend, reiterated his assertion that the unit was accidental, and told constabulary the weapon progressive successful the shooting was inactive connected the sofa successful the condo, according to charging documents obtained by Bangor-based CBS affiliate WABI. But then, Doucette invoked his close to stay soundless until conferring with an attorney, constabulary say.

A paramedic aboriginal told detectives astir the archetypal gathering with the couple, saying the fellow described a .45-caliber weapon going off, according to an affidavit obtained by WABI.

At the 2nd hospital, a authorities constabulary detective told different researcher that DeSantis was successful country for what appeared to beryllium a gunshot coiled to the chest, but that she had mislaid a batch of humor and that she was improbable to survive, according to the affidavit. Later, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner performed an autopsy and ruled that DeSantis's decease was caused by aggregate gunshot wounds, constabulary said.

On Monday, a hunt warrant was executed astatine the defendant's condo, wherever aggregate ammunition casings of Blazer .45 car ammunition were recovered, authorities said. As the suspect allegedly said, the weapon was connected the couch, with a mag and unspent ammunition nearby.

A GoFundMe started by the victim's member remembers her fondly.

"Makayla was the astir heartfelt, well-minded pistillate I've ever been around," the fundraiser reads. "She was the champion large sister and the top relation exemplary I could've asked for, and was the astir loving girl, who loved to cook for her loved ones, loved to bash crafts successful her escaped time, loved to paint, and enjoyed going to enactment each time and being astir radical who supported her and loved her for who she was."

The unfortunate and her alleged slayer had been unneurotic for good implicit 7 – astir 8 – years, according to her brother.