A 20-year-old Maine woman has been charged with manslaughter in connection with an April 2 shooting. Newly unearthed surveillance video records chilling audio from the incident.
Olivia Babin allegedly shot and killed her boyfriend, Daniel Ford Coates, 24, in Bangor while putting a gun to his forehead and saying, “Oh, you think I won’t?” before she pulls the trigger and delivers the fatal shot.
Authorities say at least two other people witnessed the shooting.
Surveillance video of the nest obtained by the newspaper shows gunshots clearly heard, followed by a woman’s voice screaming, “Oh, whoa!” The woman, in an apparent panic, then repeatedly yelled at least seven times that she was “not dead, not dead.”
This video is part of the evidence the Bangor Police Department collected against Babin.
At Babin’s April 5 bail hearing, Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Ackerman told the judge that Bangor police interviewed Babin at the scene and that she lied to police about what happened. Stated.
During the initial police interview, Babin allegedly told police that another friend had gotten into an argument with Ford Coates about a woman. She claimed to have heard a loud bang and witnessed her friend running from the scene.
The friend told police a different story, claiming that Babin was the one who recovered the Ford Coates 9mm handgun from the bedroom. Afterwards, she reportedly put a gun to the victim’s head before pulling the trigger.
Ford Coates fell to the ground. After the shooting, Babin allegedly changed his clothes and threw the gun into the nearby Kenduskeag River, according to the Bangor Police Department. Then she called 911.
Paramedics rushed Ford Coates to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The motive for the TA shootings is unclear, but friends claimed Babin was trying to scare them. There was no magazine in the gun, but there were still bullets in the chamber.
Ackerman claimed in court that alcohol and drugs were used on the night of the incident.
Babin is being held on $100,000 bail. Penobscot County Jail. She has not yet entered a plea. Her attorney did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
Babin is next scheduled to appear in court on June 10th.
