Family Defends Victim's Nature Woman Shot in Brooks Home 'No Monster'

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BELFAST - Janet Bacon, shot and killed a year ago in a Brooks home, was a woman who loved her family, cared for the elderly and disabled, and was terrified of guns, but she was portrayed "like a monster" in last week's trial of the man who pulled the trigger, a family member says.

Jerome Reynolds, 54, faced a murder or manslaughter conviction for the shooting, which he said occurred when Bacon, his father's girlfriend, forced her way into his home, where his 76-year-old father had taken refuge.

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Family Defends Victim's Nature Woman Shot in Brooks Home 'No Monster'

A jury on Friday acquitted Reynolds of both charges.

"Yes, she was a headstrong woman," Bacon's daughter-in-law, Tammy Walker, 41, of Etna told the Bangor Daily News in an interview Monday. "At times" Bacon could be boss...

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