MILLINOCKET, Maine – State police continue to investigate the death of a 6-month-old boy found unresponsive at a Katahdin Avenue home early last month.
“There are no new developments,” Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said Monday. “It’s a death that remains under investigation. We continue to review the case, and that’s where it stands. It has no timetable.”
The infant was found on May 5. The boy’s mother called for an ambulance, which took him to Millinocket Regional Hospital. A LifeFlight helicopter transferred him to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, where he died two days later, McCausland said previously.
McCausland cautioned that state police investigate all untimely infant deaths, whether suspicious or otherwise. A message left with the medical examiner’s office seeking comment Monday was not immediately returned. A spokesman for the medical examiner’s office previously referred all comment on the case to state police. The office had scheduled an autopsy for May 9.
The Bangor Daily News is withholding the name of the child and his family, pending the disposition of the state police investigation.