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Man sentenced to life in prison for triple murder in Downeast Maine

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A Maine man who shot and killed three people at their homes in Machias and Jonesboro in 2020 was sentenced to life in prison on Friday.

According to the Bangor Daily News, 65-year-old Thomas Bonfanti of Northfield was sentenced for the shooting deaths of Shawn Currey, Jennifer Bryant Flynn and Samuel Powers in February of 2020.

Currey’s girlfriend, Regina Long, was also shot in the head but survived after playing dead.

A jury found Bonfanti guilty in June of 2022.

Bonfanti claimed two of the shootings were accidental.

He was sentenced on three counts of murder, and an aggravated attempted murder charge for shooting Long.

A related aggravated assault charge also came with a 30-year sentence and an order to pay $3,181 in restitution.

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