LINCOLN -- The Maine Attorney General's Office says officers were justified in shooting and killing a man earlier this year in the town of Lincoln . The report says the two officers acted in self-defense and in defense of another when they shot the man.

During the evening of February 12, officers responded to a home on Whalen Street in Lincoln for a trespassing complaint. Officers found Derek Beach, 37, of Lincoln, in the kitchen of that Whalen Street home with a knife.

According to Lincoln police, Beach had bail conditions prohibiting him from being at the residence, as well as a protection-from-abuse order.

The report says at one point, Beach pointed the knife at his own chest.

Despite negotiations with Beach, he refused to drop the knife, resulting in officers tasing him. But th

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