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The Night Makayla DeSantis Was Killed You are not here because you read a news story. You are here because someone you love is dead, and the people who should have protected her did not. That is the only thing that matters in this room. On the evening of Sunday, March 8, 2026, a 911 call reached the Franklin County Regional Communications Center at about 7:30 p.m. The caller reported that Makayla Rose DeSantis had been shot at a residence on Left Bank in Carrabassett Valley — inside a condominium unit at the housing complex that Sugarloaf Mountain Ski Resort rents out to its seasonal and year-round workforce. She was twenty-three years old. She had been in a relationship with the man now charged with her murder for about seven years, since they were teenagers. Both worked at the resort. The man, twenty-four, was arrested the next Monday evening on a warrant issued by the Farmington District Court and is being held without bail at the Franklin County Jail. Makayla was still alive when first responders reached her. They took her to MaineHealth Franklin Hospital in Farmington, and from there she was airlifted to Maine Medical Center in Portland. She…