Maine authorities reported that four people were shot and killed on Tuesday, April 18, in a home in Bowdoin, with three others wounded on Interstate 295 in Yarmouth. According to the police, both crimes are linked, and they have since charged a man with murder.

Joseph Eaton, a 34-year-old Bowdoin resident, was charged with four counts of murder, but no motive for the shootings was disclosed. Police did not identify the victims. One of the highway victims was in a critical condition.

Police said there was no danger to the public after closing a portion of the interstate and ordering residents and businesses in the area to shelter in place for around 90 minutes.

Bowdoin, a farming community with roughly 3,000 residents, was where the shootings first occurred, in a home surrounded by woods. Yellow crime tape cordoned off the area, and roughly 10 law enforcement vehicles and a crime scene van were parked outside. Investigators could be seen moving around the scene, with a woman speaking to the police before dropping to her knees and crying. The hearse was later found to have left the driveway.

Police officers, some with long rifles, were observed canvassing areas near the highway after the shootings, with heavily armed officers at an off-ramp looking into the trunk of a car that had bullet holes in the windshield. Police detained a person of interest in the case, and several witnesses told reporters that they saw one person in handcuffs.

Maine Governor Janet Mills said that she was praying for the injured and consoled the families and friends of the victims.

The most recent shooting is part of a series of mass shootings that have recently troubled communities throughout the United States. These include the shootings at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, a teenager’s birthday party in a small Alabama town, and a bank in Louisville, Kentucky.