Manuel Adame, a 57-year-old Hispanic/Latino man from Lewiston, Maine, was killed on August 19, 2013 while working at a large egg farm in Turner. Adame was inside a 500 feet long, poorly lit chicken barn that was being cleaned out when he was struck by a single .22-caliber bullet in the chest and neck. He collapsed while attempting to leave the barn and died en route to a hospital in Lewiston.

Also in the barn that day was 44-year-old contractor Michael Warbin of Franklin, Connecticut, who had been hired to remove pests and was using a .22-caliber rifle to shoot at rodents and stray chickens. Investigators believed Warbin was at one end of the building and Adame at the other. Authorities said they believed the shooting was unintentional and focused on whether reckless criminal negligence applied, since Warbin apparently did not know someone was in his field of fire.

An Androscoggin County grand jury later indicted Warbin on manslaughter; he pleaded not guilty initially and ultimately entered a no-contest plea to manslaughter, receiving a 45-day term of a three-year jail sentence, four years probation, and 500 hours of community service. Does anyone have information about conditions inside the Turner barns or the contractor’s practices that day?