On August 3, 2009, 22-year-old Victor Reed Sheldon was shot and killed inside an apartment on Pine Street in Rumford, Maine. The same attack also killed 48-year-old Roger Leroy Day Jr., who lived in the apartment where Sheldon had been staying. Initial accounts describe a visit by 20-year-old Richard A. Moulton Jr., followed by the arrival of 19-year-old Eric Hamel, who brought a stolen revolver and fired the shots while Moulton was in the bathroom.

Prosecutors say the killings were arranged as a murder-for-hire by Victor Sheldon’s estranged wife, Gayla Sheldon, who was concerned about losing custody of her children and sought revenge after a domestic assault charge against her husband was dismissed the day of the murders. Moulton reportedly recruited Hamel with a $2,000 offer and a contingency that Day would be killed if present. Hamel later led police to the buried weapon and other evidence and pleaded guilty to two counts of murder, receiving a 45-year sentence; Moulton pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to 40 years. Gayla Sheldon pleaded guilty to criminal conspiracy and solicitation to commit murder and received a 25-year sentence with 15 years suspended.

Are there details about Victor Sheldon’s life in Rumford or the Pine Street apartment anyone can share that might add context to what happened?