On Thursday, heavily armed police surrounded a home in rural Bowdoin as they searched for Robert Card but left hours later after searching the residence.
The Lewiston Police Department said they are searching for suspect Robert Card, who is wanted for multiple counts of murder, following two mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine, that left 18 dead. LiveNOW's Andrew Craft spoke about the massive manhunt for Card with law enforcement expert David Katz.
Richard Goddard, who lives on the road where the search took place, knows the Card family. Robert Card, who is four years younger, knows the terrain well, Goddard said. Officials in Maine provide latest update on mass shooting. The number of deaths now confirmed to be 18 and injuries 12. April Stevens lives in the same neighborhood where one of the shootings took place. She turned on all her lights overnight and locked her doors. She knew someone killed at the bar and another person injured who needed surgery.The attacks stunned a state of only 1.3 million people that has one of the country’s lowest homicide rates: 29 killings in all of 2022.
Maine doesn’t require permits to carry guns, and the state has a longstanding culture of gun ownership that is tied to its traditions of hunting and sport shooting. Keeping in mind the strong support for gun rights, lawmakers passed a "yellow flag" law in 2019 that would require police to seek a medical evaluation of anyone believed to be dangerous before then trying to take their guns away.
Eight murder warrants were issued for Card after authorities identified eight of the victims, police said. Ten more will likely be issued once the names of the rest of the dead are confirmed, said Maine State Police Col. William Ross. "He’s pretty shook up," Poulin said Thursday. "And it’s just sinking in today, like, wow, I was very close to being there. And a lot of the people that got hurt, I know."
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