Four Shooting Deaths Shock Vermont
by WILSON RING
Associated Press Writer
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Last Friday night, state troopers called to a mobile home in Belvidere confronted a crime not seen in Vermont in more than a half-century: Four people had been shot to death.
Over the past 18 months, law enforcement and community leaders have seen a string of random, multiple murders and strong increases in various categories of crime in Vermont, long known as one of the safest states.
Police attribute at least part of the increase, especially the rise in property crime, to a burgeoning drug problem: the arrival of low-cost, high-grade heroin. But there seems to be no common denominator to the slayings.
''There has been an ugly run of events that happen from time to time,'' said Vermont Defender General Robert Appel. ''I am not sure one can discern a pattern from a run of events.''
[b]On Saturday, Douglas Provost, 34, of Fairfax was arrested on murder charges in the shootings in Belvidere, a rural community of about 300 people, 40 miles from Vermont's largest city, Burlington. Police said the shooting happened while Provost was trying to trade a gun for marijuana.
Provost said that the first victim was shot accidentally and that he shot the others in self-defense.[/b]
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