Amanda Brown was 29 when she was found dead inside the Standish home she shared with her boyfriend and their two young children in the summer of 2021. Deputies responded to the Dow Road residence on June 16, 2021, for an assault investigation and discovered her body; an autopsy ruled the cause of death a gunshot wound to the stomach and the manner homicide.

Family members say Amanda had obtained a protection from abuse order on behalf of her children against her boyfriend, Brandon Libby, and her mother described the relationship as physically and mentally abusive. Libby, then 34, was located the same day at an ex-fiancée’s home in North Waterboro; after a standoff with the Maine State Police Tactical Team he surrendered and was taken into custody and treated after a K-9 bite.

Libby was indicted by a Cumberland County grand jury on November 5, 2021, and pleaded not guilty. He has said the shooting was an accidental discharge during an altercation; prosecution testimony in a pretrial hearing described clothing and trajectory markings that the state said made that account difficult. Anyone who knew Amanda or observed events around Dow Road in June 2021 is asked to share information.