SKOWHEGAN — A Palmyra woman has been charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, which authorities said is linked to an ongoing investigation into a March shooting that police ruled a homicide.
A Somerset County grand jury indicted Jacqueline McClure, 33, for the Class C offense when it met Aug. 14. McClure entered a not guilty plea at her arraignment Wednesday at the Skowhegan District Court.
The attorney general’s office, which prosecutes all homicides in Maine and certain other crimes, said the allegation against McClure is linked to the killing of Jaquan Humphries in Palmyra on March 12. But officials are remaining tight-lipped about how exactly the alleged robbery conspiracy is linked to the homicide investigation.
Maine State Police said previously that Humphries, 28, died from a gunshot wound. His body was found at 531 Madawaska Road — a home where the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office had executed multiple drug search warrants and made several arrests about six months before. Humphries, of the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston, was believed to be living at the home, police said.
The recent indictment alleges that on March 12, McClure, “with the intent that conduct be performed that in fact would constitute a crime or crimes, did agree with one or more others to engage in or cause the performance of the conduct by providing detailed information of the contests and layout of a home to a person who intended to commit a robbery therein, and providing a vehicle for persons to use for travel to and from the robbery.”
A police affidavit supporting an arrest warrant for McClure has been impounded and unavailable to the public to view since it was filed in June. The order impounding it remained in effect Wednesday following the arraignment, a Skowhegan court clerk said.
Prosecutors have not charged anyone else in connection with this case, said Rebecca Stefansky, a spokesperson for the Office of the Maine Attorney General.
Lt. Aaron Turcotte, a spokesperson for the Maine State Police, declined this week to provide any further information about McClure’s case or the investigation into Humphries’ death.
Jacob Ferm, McClure’s court-appointed attorney, also declined to comment Wednesday.
A state criminal history database search shows McClure is also facing charges in Penobscot County of criminal conspiracy and hindering apprehension or prosecution, both Class B offenses. A grand jury in that county returned an indictment for those charges in July. It was unclear Wednesday whether those charges are connected in any way to the Somerset County case.
McClure was arrested on the Somerset County charges in June, and has since been held on $50,000 cash bail, court records show. She was being held as of Wednesday at the Penobscot County Jail in Bangor, according to online jail records.
The killing of Humphries was the second apparently violent death within months on the same road, although it remains unclear if the two deaths were related.
State police said 48-year-old Todd Parsons was stabbed in the early hours of Oct. 11, 2024 at 482 Madawaska Road, which GPS mapping shows is about a quarter of a mile from 531 Madawaska Road.
Parsons died from his injuries a week later, after being treated at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, state police said.
State police said the day of the stabbing their investigation included interviewing people and processing evidence. A section of Madawaska Road was closed for much of that day.
Police have not released Parsons’ official cause or manner of death or provided any updates since.
