Jessica McDevitt, 24, was killed on December 28, 2001, in South Portland, Maine. According to the Maine State Police s annual homicide summary for that year, she was shot with a handgun by her former boyfriend, 24-year-old Keegan Thomas, who then turned the gun on himself, ending the incident as a murder-suicide. The state s listing explicitly classifies the case as domestic in nature, noting Thomas as the shooter and his suicide immediately after the killing.
Because the identified perpetrator died at the scene, there were no arrests connected to the case, nor any continued search for additional suspects reported in the official summary. Community memorial pages that track gun-violence victims corroborate the date, location, and manner of death and attribute their sourcing to the Maine State Police list.
Public memorial records indicate that McDevitt, born April 18, 1977, was laid to rest at Arlington Cemetery in Windham, Cumberland County, Maine, a few miles from South Portland. While these records do not add investigative details, they reinforce the timeline and the personal loss recognized by family and community.
In the broader context of that year, Maine recorded 19 homicides, of which nine were tied to domestic violence, and five were classified as murder-suicides statewide, a pattern the state summary notes explicitly; McDevitt s killing is listed among those domestic murder-suicides. That framing underscores how her death fit into a larger pattern of intimate partner violence documented in Maine in 2001.
