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Vigilante to others. Hero to those families.

Quote:A Canadian man wanted in connection with the deaths of two registered sex offenders in Maine is dead after police in that state caught up with him.

Maine authorities said 20-year-old Stephen Marshall, from Cape Breton, shot himself in the head with a .45 calibre handgun after Boston police officers cornered him on a bus Sunday.

Cops stopped the vehicle and climbed on board.

"Several second later the officers heard a gun shot," said David Procopio, spokesman for the Suffolk district attorney.

Marshall was rushed to hospital but succumbed to his massive head injuries.

Investigators had been looking for the 20-year-old after finding the bodies of Maine men Joseph Gray, 57, of Milo, and William Elliott, 24, of Corinth.

Both individuals, registered sex offenders in the state, had been fatally shot – their bodies were discovered Sunday morning.

Marshall was reportedly seen leaving the home of one of the victims in a pick-up truck belonging to his father. It’s not clear at this point whether there’s any connection between Marshall and the two men.

Marshall had gone to Maine for the first time to meet his dad, who lives there.

State police warned Boston authorities that Marshall could be heading their way after the vehicle was found abandoned.

Police discovered bullets linked to him in the bathroom at a bus station in Bangor.

No one else on the bus was injured when Marshall took his own life, Procopio said, but five passengers sitting nearby were taken to area hospitals to be checked out.

The killings prompted police to take down the Maine Sex Offender Registry as a precaution – it lists the photos, names and addresses of more than 2,000 registered sex offenders.

wow, i don't think one could make up a more dramatic story.

Yeah, I don't think he was a bad guy at all. He got rid of two scumbags who shouldn't be allowed to be part of society anyway. Maybe he watched "Boondock Saints" a few too many times or something.

Glad the guy took out 2 pieces of scum not deserving of life before he went out himself. I consider him a hero.

wow ^^^ Tottally aggree, people like that should be shot.....

Yeah it's never seemed right when someone gets charged with killing one of those bastards.

It would have been better had he not turned the gun on himself. I doubt he would have been convicted and it seems to me he needed some help. Either he was molested by one of these creeps, had a family member molested by one of them or he was molested by somebody else and the sex offenders he sent to meet their maker had done things to their victims that struck too close to home. It's sad that he felt it necessary to kill himself.