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A 20-year-old Canadian shot and killed himself this week after being cornered on a bus in Boston by police seeking to question him about the murders of two sex offenders in Maine. Police suspect that Stephen Marshall, a restaurant dishwasher, killed the sex offenders after getting their names and addresses from Maine’s online registry. At the time of the killings, he was visiting his father in Maine. After the murders, state police removed the 2,200 names from the online sex-offender registry as a precaution, but said the move was only temporary. “It will go back online, absolutely,” said Maine public safety spokesman Stephen McCausland. “It’s the most popular site on the state of Maine Web page.”
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