Arrest made in Waterbury homicide
October 19, 2024 | By Lisa Scagliotti Early Saturday morning, Vermont State Police arrested a 20-year-old Massachusetts man in connection with the Waterbury homicide this week at the Kneeland Flats Trailer Park.
Fabrice Rumama, Vt. State Police photo
Fabrice Rumama, 20, of Springfield, Massachusetts, is jailed in St. Johnsbury without bail and is due in state criminal court on Monday to face a charge of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Shawn Spiker, 34, of Croydon, New Hampshire, police said.
Meanwhile, the investigation continues and no one has yet been charged in the shooting of a second victim at the same home in the Kneeland Flats neighborhood on Monday, Oct. 14, police said. Michael S. Perry, 57, of Waterbury, was seriously injured and hospitalized.
According to a death certificate from the Vermont Chief Medical Examiner’s office in Burlington, Spiker died of multiple gunshot wounds. The document lists his occupation as a painter.
Investigators did not share details of the circumstances of Rumama’s arrest. More information will be presented at Monday’s arraignment in Vermont Superior Court in Barre, state police Capt. Jeremy Hill said in a press release.
A judge ordered Rumama be held without bail pending arraignment which was scheduled for 1 p.m. on Monday, police said. He is lodged at the Northeast Correctional Complex in St. Johnsbury.