Killings of William Elliott and Joseph Gray
| Killings of William Elliott and Joseph Gray | |
|---|---|
| Location | 45°15′1″N 68°58′59″W / 45.25028°N 68.98306°W (Milo) 44°59′10″N 68°59′57″W / 44.98611°N 68.99917°W (Corinth) Maine, U.S. |
| Date | April 16, 2006 (CDT; UTC−04:00) |
| Target | Convicted sex offenders in Maine |
Attack type | Murder–suicide, homicide by shooting |
| Weapons | |
| Deaths | 3 (including the perpetrator) |
| Perpetrator | Stephen Alexander Marshall |
| Motive | Vigilantism |
On April 16, 2006, two convicted sex offenders, William Elliott and Joseph Gray, were killed by Stephen Alexander Marshall (August 9, 1985 – April 16, 2006), a 20-year-old American-Canadian man. Marshall had travelled from Nova Scotia to Maine with the intention of killing sex offenders in an act of vigilantism. Using the names and addresses of convicted sex offenders retrieved through searching publicly available sex offender registries in the United States, Marshall drove to the houses of the two men and killed them, before taking his own life in Boston, Massachusetts when police stopped the bus he was on.