Middletown Man Shot in Maine Leaves Hospital

MIDDLETOWN, RI — Jason Almeida has left Central Medical Hospital in Maine where he underwent surgery and spent 28 days recovering from four gun shot wounds, according to his girl friend Alyssa Goulet.

Goulet, who grew up in North Kingstown, reported his recovery has astonished the nurses. Almeida almost died from his injuries suffered Nov. 26 when two men came to the camper where he and Goulet were staying and opened fire.

At the door, "one produced a handgun and started shooting," police said. Goulet "escaped being wounded as the shots were fired through a window of the camp," according to Steve McCausland, spokesman for the State Police.

"The camp is owned by Sandra Goulet of Naples, the ex-girlfriend of the shooter," police said. She was not at the camp at the time of the shooting.

The shooter, Norman Stroebel, died in Naples, Maine during a shootout with police. The other man at the camper, Richard Dickema, was found shot to death inside his trailer in Naples.

A Go Fund Me campaign has reached a little more than half its goal to help pay Almeida's hospital bills.