MAN KILLED BY BOOBY TRAP IN HIS OWN HOME

A man was killed Thanksgiving night by a booby trap he had apparently rigged in his home, officials say.

The deceased, identified by police as 65-year-old Ronald Cyr of Van Buren, Maine, called 911 after he was shot by his self-made home security device and was taken to a hospital, police said in a Friday news release.

“Regretfully, Mr. Cyr succumbed to the injuries sustained from the gunshot,” Van Buren police said.

Police later determined that the shooting was the result of Cyr unintentionally triggering the device.

Investigators at the scene discovered that Cyr’s front door was rigged with a device “designed to fire a handgun should anyone attempt to enter the door,” according to the police statement. Police reportedly found other “unknown devices” in Cyr’s home that prompted them to call the Maine State Police bomb squad.

Van Buren, a predominantly rural town in northern Maine, sits along the St. John River directly across the U.s.-canada border.