Mark P. Benjamin, a 42-year-old Caucasian man, was shot and killed at a seasonal camp on Bog Road in Belvidere, Vermont, on Wednesday afternoon, September 21, 2022. The camp belonged to his mother. Around 2:10 p.m. Mark and his husband encountered 61-year-old Michael Chadwick of Brownington, who had recently ended a long-term relationship with Mark’s mother. Chadwick fired a handgun, striking Mark in the neck.

Despite his injury, Mark got into a vehicle driven by his husband, who called 911 and drove to a residence near the intersection of Bog Road and Vermont Route 109. Emergency responders pronounced Mark dead there at 2:40 p.m. State troopers found Chadwick barricaded inside the camp; after roughly a two-hour standoff negotiators persuaded him to surrender. He was taken into custody and later arrested on a charge of second-degree murder. An autopsy listed the cause of death as a gunshot wound to the neck and the manner of death as homicide.

If anyone has information about Mark, the events at the camp, or the days leading up to September 21, 2022, please come forward.