Men plead not guilty to Rumford homicides

RUMFORD  — Two former high school honor roll
students have pleaded not guilty to murder charges stemming from the
August shooting to death of two men in their Rumford home in August.

A
court clerk says that 20-year-old Richard Moulton and 19-year-old Erik
Hamel, both of Mexico, entered the pleas Tuesday in Oxford Superior
Court in Paris.

The two were charged a day after 22-year-old
Victor Reid Sheldon and 48-year-old Roger Leroy Day Jr., were found
shot to death on Aug. 3.

Court documents say Hamel and Moulton
were seeking revenge because Sheldon allegedly assaulted his estranged
girlfriend, who'd begun dating Moulton.