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Shooting Victim Jason Almeida Has No Insurance: Go Fund Me Page Started to Cover Medical Costs

The campaign had on Wednesday morning reached $10,450, a little more than half the goal.

MIDDLETOWN, RI β€” A Middletown woman has started a Go Fund Me page to help Jason Almeida, the Middletown man who was shot four times in Maine.

According to the post by Monica Krebs, titled "Alyssa and Jason need your help," Almeida remains in the intensive care unit at a Maine hospital. He does not have health insurance and faces a "long road to recovery."

Alyssa Goulet, his girlfriend, was not injured during the shooting, but Almeida was hit four times.

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According to police, the Norman Strobel and another man went to the door of a camper where Almeida and Goulet were spending the weekend in Casco, Maine. Police say Strobel opened fire.

Almeida underwent surgery and was hospitalized at Central Maine Medical Center. The hospital said Sunday night they could neither confirm nor deny he is a patient.

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Strobel had moved into the mobile home with Richard Dickema recently, Steve McCausland, Maine State Police spokesman said. It's not yet known if Dickema was the other man who came to the camp in Casco. Police found Dickema dead in a mobile home in Naples, Maine, on Sunday morning.

"State Police continue to investigate the shootings in Casco and Naples, late Saturday night and early Sunday morning," McCausland said.

The Casco police issued a press statement to say the first shooting happened around 10:45 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 26 on Winifred Lane, in Casco.

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.

Strobel was "shot to death by Cumberland deputies after an exchange of gunfire inside Dickema's mobile home."

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