Joel Edwin Williams, 48, died from gunshot wounds after an altercation at a Rockland Road residence in Somerville, Maine, on the morning of June 30, 2021. He was staying at the property and was pronounced dead at the scene; the state’s Chief Medical Examiner ruled his death a homicide.

The incident also injured 31-year-old Kyle Hunt of Jefferson, who was treated at a local hospital for non-life-threatening wounds and released. Witnesses said the argument concerned whether Hunt could use the residence’s shower to grow medical marijuana and may have escalated physically, with a claim that Williams stabbed Hunt before Hunt shot Williams.

The Maine State Police and the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office investigated and presented the case to a Lincoln County Grand Jury. In November 2021 the grand jury declined to indict Hunt, and the Maine Attorney General’s Office later announced no criminal charges would be filed, a decision Williams’ family disputes. Does anyone have information about the events at that Rockland Road residence that morning?