A man in Maine died on Thanksgiving after being shot by his own booby trap at home, authorities said.
Ronald Cyr, 65, called 911 early Thursday evening, telling operators that he had been shot, the Van Buren police department said on Facebook.
Police and medics went to the scene and gave Cyr medical assistance. “Regretfully, Mr Cyr succumbed to the injuries he sustained from the gunshot,” authorities said.
Officers learned that the front door of Cyr’s home was “outfitted with a device designed to fire a handgun should anyone attempt to enter the door.”
They discovered “other unknown devices” and subsequently called Maine state police bomb squad.
The agencies investigated Cyr’s home into the early morning hours of 29 November; authorities determined that he was shot “as the result of the unintentional discharge of one of his homemade devices”.
