Police are still in the dark about the motive for a fatal knifing attack yesterday on a 60-year-old shopper at a Shaws supermarket in Maine.
In fact, the skin-headed 31-year-old in custody for the grisly crime, Connor MacCalister, doesn’t even appear to have known her victim when she approached the older woman and began stabbing her.
A pair of emergency medical technicians also happened to be grocery shopping at the time of the deadly encounter, but were unable to save Wendy Boudreau, whom they found with her throat slit already bleeding to death.
The unconscious woman was transported to a local hospital in Biddeford ME with stab wounds and later pronounced dead.
One witness to the aftermath at Shaws described “a massive pool of blood” flooding the isle where the gruesome attack occurred which, by then, was cordoned off with police tape.
MacCalister herself was easy to apprehend at the crime scene -- other customers and store employees wrestled away the weapon the shaven-headed woman was still wielding and detained her until police arrived.
According to arrest records, the stabbing suspect was convicted for criminal mischief in 2011 and currently resides at a home for the disabled.
Although the nature of her disability hasn’t been disclosed yet, a picture is indeed worth a thousand words; and, as evidenced by her mugshot above, Connor MacCalister seems to be a profoundly disturbed individual.
Whether this alone accounts for her unprovoked show of violence yesterday remains to be seen. For now, though, she’s been charged with murder and is expected in court by tomorrow for arraignment.
