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Police identify 43-year-old as victim of Waterville murder

Officer Frank Pellerin of the Waterville Police Department stands near where crime scene tape was placed around the home at 119 Cool Street in Waterville on Monday, a day after a suspicious death was reported there. Officials later ruled it a “sharp force” homicide. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel file

WATERVILLE – The victim of a suspected homicide at 119 Cool Street on Sunday was Charles Bellows, 43, of Waterville, Maine State Police said.

Bellows died of sharp force trauma, an autopsy by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined Monday. Thomas Lowrie, 41, of Waterville was arrested Sunday and charged in connection with Bellows' killing.

The Maine Department of Public Safety said in a brief press release Wednesday that the state medical examiner's office had identified Bellows as the victim and that the police investigation into the murder “remains active and ongoing.”

Thomas Lowrie

According to state police, the Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit responded to the home at 119 Cool Street on Sunday after Waterville police requested assistance in the investigation.

Lowrie appeared Monday afternoon at the Capital Judicial Center in Augusta on murder charges, according to Lt. Aaron M. Turcotte, troop commander of the Maine State Police Central Field Troop. Lowrie is being held at the Kennebec County Correctional Facility in Augusta.

No further information on the case is available because a police affidavit supporting the charges against Lowrie has been kept from the public.

The property where the death was reported is located at the busy intersection of Cool Street and Kennedy Memorial Drive, just west of Messalonskee Stream and across Cool Street from the CVS Pharmacy at 1 Kennedy Memorial Drive.

A neighbor who wishes to remain anonymous said earlier this week that she believed two men had been living in the house for about two years and spent a lot of time away from home, mostly working on bicycles.

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