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New details emerge in double murder in Poland, Maine

The suspect, Aaron Aldrich, was due in court Tuesday, but the hearing was continued to a later date

New details emerge in double murder in Poland, Maine

The suspect, Aaron Aldrich, was due in court Tuesday, but the hearing was continued to a later date

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New details emerge in double murder in Poland, Maine

The suspect, Aaron Aldrich, was due in court Tuesday, but the hearing was continued to a later date

An Auburn man accused of killing two people in Poland in February 2023 was due in court Tuesday for a bail hearing, but that hearing was continued to a later date.Maine's Total Coverage is learning new details about the case against Aaron Aldrich, who is facing two counts of murder. According to court documents, police say Aldrich shot both Shoeb Mohamed Adan, 21, of Springfield, Mass., and Mohamed Aden, 16, of Lewiston.The bodies were found inside a home on Tripp Lake Road in Poland on Feb. 21. Police say the victims are not related.According to court documents, police were called to do a welfare check at the home. When police arrived at about 7 a.m., court documents say the front door of the home was ajar, and deputies saw a body on the floor in the living room, next to a table. When deputies went inside, they saw a man face down on the floor with what appeared to be a gunshot wound in his back.According to court documents, as deputies searched the home, they found a second body face down on the floor in another room, lying in a pool of what appeared to be drying blood.According to court documents, police found zip ties that appeared to have been made into makeshift flex-cuffs as if to restrain someone. They also found a white powder they believed to be cocaine.Just after noon that day, a woman reported that her son, Mohamed Aden, had been missing since the previous evening.According to court documents, when evidence teams started processing the scene that afternoon, they say they found the man in the living room had gunshots in his right arm, back and chest. Detectives also found several shell casings, appearing to be 9 mm, near the body.Detectives also found several apparent 9 mm shell casings near the body in the second room, as well as blood on the wall.Police tentatively identified the body in the living room as Mohammed Aden and the body in the second room as Shoeb Aden.According to court documents, police got a tip from a woman in Lewiston who said she had information. When police interviewed the woman, she told them that she and Aldrich had broken up earlier that day and that he had left her house around 10 p.m. the night before, Feb. 20. She said he came back around midnight and was acting paranoid and looking out the windows. The woman did say this was normal behavior for him, but that she noticed what appeared to be blood on his shoe and a cut on his wrist.She said she left home around 2 a.m. and when she got back, he was gone, but that he sent her a text message around 3 a.m. with a picture of himself and the words "I did a thing."She told police Aldrich usually kept a 9 mm gun at her house but that it was no longer there.On Feb. 22, according to court documents, police spoke with a woman in Oxford who said she had been to the home on Tripp Lake Road on the evening of Feb. 20 and saw a couple of people before leaving with a friend. She said that when she returned home around midnight, she went inside when no one answered the door and saw a man on the floor. She said, at first, she thought he was sleeping, but when she shook him, she noticed he had holes in him. She told police she then found the other man dead in a back bedroom and then left.According to court documents, on Feb. 24 police in Brunswick put out an alert, looking for Aldrich and accusing him from stealing several things from Lowe's in Brunswick as well as stealing a van from the parking lot of the store.That night, police in Salem, New Hampshire, spotted Aldrich going in and out of the stolen vehicle in the parking lot at the Mall at Rockingham Park. However, police said he had changed the license plate on the van.A New Hampshire State Police SWAT team responded and tried to arrest Aldrich, but according to court documents, he ran into the mall and appeared to be carrying a pistol. He was arrested a short time later inside the mall.

An Auburn man accused of killing two people in Poland in February 2023 was due in court Tuesday for a bail hearing, but that hearing was continued to a later date.

Maine's Total Coverage is learning new details about the case against Aaron Aldrich, who is facing two counts of murder. According to court documents, police say Aldrich shot both Shoeb Mohamed Adan, 21, of Springfield, Mass., and Mohamed Aden, 16, of Lewiston.

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The bodies were found inside a home on Tripp Lake Road in Poland on Feb. 21. Police say the victims are not related.

According to court documents, police were called to do a welfare check at the home. When police arrived at about 7 a.m., court documents say the front door of the home was ajar, and deputies saw a body on the floor in the living room, next to a table.

When deputies went inside, they saw a man face down on the floor with what appeared to be a gunshot wound in his back.

According to court documents, as deputies searched the home, they found a second body face down on the floor in another room, lying in a pool of what appeared to be drying blood.

According to court documents, police found zip ties that appeared to have been made into makeshift flex-cuffs as if to restrain someone. They also found a white powder they believed to be cocaine.

Just after noon that day, a woman reported that her son, Mohamed Aden, had been missing since the previous evening.

According to court documents, when evidence teams started processing the scene that afternoon, they say they found the man in the living room had gunshots in his right arm, back and chest. Detectives also found several shell casings, appearing to be 9 mm, near the body.

Detectives also found several apparent 9 mm shell casings near the body in the second room, as well as blood on the wall.

Police tentatively identified the body in the living room as Mohammed Aden and the body in the second room as Shoeb Aden.

According to court documents, police got a tip from a woman in Lewiston who said she had information. When police interviewed the woman, she told them that she and Aldrich had broken up earlier that day and that he had left her house around 10 p.m. the night before, Feb. 20. She said he came back around midnight and was acting paranoid and looking out the windows. The woman did say this was normal behavior for him, but that she noticed what appeared to be blood on his shoe and a cut on his wrist.

She said she left home around 2 a.m. and when she got back, he was gone, but that he sent her a text message around 3 a.m. with a picture of himself and the words "I did a thing."

She told police Aldrich usually kept a 9 mm gun at her house but that it was no longer there.

On Feb. 22, according to court documents, police spoke with a woman in Oxford who said she had been to the home on Tripp Lake Road on the evening of Feb. 20 and saw a couple of people before leaving with a friend. She said that when she returned home around midnight, she went inside when no one answered the door and saw a man on the floor. She said, at first, she thought he was sleeping, but when she shook him, she noticed he had holes in him. She told police she then found the other man dead in a back bedroom and then left.

According to court documents, on Feb. 24 police in Brunswick put out an alert, looking for Aldrich and accusing him from stealing several things from Lowe's in Brunswick as well as stealing a van from the parking lot of the store.

That night, police in Salem, New Hampshire, spotted Aldrich going in and out of the stolen vehicle in the parking lot at the Mall at Rockingham Park. However, police said he had changed the license plate on the van.

A New Hampshire State Police SWAT team responded and tried to arrest Aldrich, but according to court documents, he ran into the mall and appeared to be carrying a pistol. He was arrested a short time later inside the mall.