NORTH GREENBUSH — Police received a 911 cellphone call from an unknown person that someone was the victim of a gunshot wound at 432 Whiteview Road Saturday night.
When officers arrived around 11 p.m. they said they found Rory Poulin in the house with his longtime girlfriend, 53-year-old Margaret Jordan, her dead body still sitting up on a living room couch, a shotgun blast to her head. The incident appeared to have occurred about 25 minutes earlier, said North Greenbush Police Chief Rocco Fragomeni.
Police charged Poulin, an auto-repair shop owner, with second-degree murder and are investigating the cellphone call, which came from an individual who knew the couple were together all day and that a shotgun blast followed, Fragomeni said.
It is the town's first homicide in about a decade, the chief said.
Police say Poulin, 56, allegedly made statements to officers that it was apparent he was responsible for Jordan's death. Officers have responded to the residence near the corner of routes 150 and 136 before for domestic problems, Fragomeni said.
Poulin, whose auto-repair and used-car business is in North Troy, was arraigned in town court Sunday morning and sent to the Rensselaer County Jail without bail. He is scheduled to appear back in town court on Wednesday for a preliminary hearing.
An autopsy on Jordan is scheduled for Monday at Albany Medical Center Hospital. State Police are assisting North Greenbush in the investigation.
Joyce Salvi, who lives next door to the couple, said she could hear them arguing with each other every weekend and had been saving up for a fence to be built between their two properties. Also, she said she witnessed strange behavior, like that the couple appeared to have no garbage pickup or mail service to the residence, and that one night this past summer she found Poulin sleeping on his garage roof after he had been kicked out of the house.
"What happened shocks me because it's a nice, quiet town," said Salvi, who has lived on Whiteview Road since 2007. "But because of the people involved, it doesn't shock me."
Police are asking anyone with information relating to Poulin to call 283-5323.
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