State Police investigating China death as a homicide

4:16 PM, Jul 16, 2012   |    comments
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CHINA, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- The Maine medical examiner's office has ruled that a 38-year-old man died of a single stab wound to the chest.

James Dodge of China died Saturday after being taken from his home to MaineGeneral Medical Center in Augusta by ambulance Friday night.

On Monday, Mark Belserene of the medical examiner's office said Dodge's death has been ruled a homicide.

Authorities say three other people who were in the house at the time are cooperating in the investigation.

Maine Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland says investigators have a good idea what happened in the home, and that the public should not feel that they are at risk.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.