On the morning of May 20, 2022, 36-year-old Tyler Morin of Lewiston went to Ready Road Service Towing Company on Riverside Drive in Augusta to retrieve his impounded Dodge Charger. Just before 11 a.m. an encounter in the impound lot escalated when Morin allegedly drove in a way that nearly struck a towing company employee. The business owner, 48-year-old Rob Drummond, then fired a handgun, and Morin was hit in the chest and died at the scene.

The Augusta Police Department and Maine State Police responded and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled Morin’s death a homicide. The investigation was referred to the Maine Attorney General’s Office, which later determined Drummond had acted in self-defense and announced no criminal charges would be filed in July 2022. Morin is remembered as a devoted father to two children.

If anyone witnessed the confrontation at the impound lot or has information about what happened that morning, please share what you know.