A Bangor woman was indicted for manslaughter by a grand jury Wednesday.
A Penobscot County grand jury returned an indictment of manslaughter for 20-year-old Olivia Babin. She is accused of fatally shooting Daniel Ford-Coates, 24, on April 2 at an apartment on Highland Avenue, near the intersection with Ohio Street.
She is accused of causing Ford-Coates’ death recklessly or with criminal negligence, according to the indictment in Penobscot County Superior Court records.
Audio from a surveillance video captured the moment prosecutors say Ford-Coates was fatally shot. A single gunshot can be heard on the video, followed by a woman yelling two expletives and saying “You’re not dead” multiple times, according to a video obtained by the New York Post. The woman can also be heard yelling “What do I do?”
The Maine attorney general’s office previously said it had audio from a surveillance video because a window was open in the apartment where the shooting happened.
Ackerman described the video during a court hearing April 5. The video obtained by The Post mirrors what she said in court.
Four people were in Ford-Coates’ apartment, including Babin and Ford-Coates, in the hours before the shooting, and people were drinking and using unspecified drugs, Ackerman said. She described details shared by the two witnesses, a man and a woman, with police.
At some point Babin decided she wanted to scare women in an apartment below and found Ford-Coates’ 9mm handgun, Ackerman said. Babin took the “clip out of the handgun” and manipulated it in a way that suggested it was unloaded, the assistant AG said.
Babin put the gun up to Ford-Coates’ head and said, “Oh, you don’t think I will?” then laughed and pulled the trigger, Ackerman said. Ford-Coates had muzzle burns on his forehead consistent with a contact shot, Ackerman said.
The affidavit outlining the police investigation and reasons for arresting Babin is sealed until her arraignment.
Babin is in the Penobscot County Jail on $100,000 cash bail, which she has not posted. She is scheduled for a June 10 court hearing.
