A mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine has resulted in 18 fatalities as police continue their search to locate the gunman.
Residents of Lewiston, a hard-bitten former mill town in central Maine, struggled on Thursday with a new reality: the scourge of American mass shootings had arrived. Eighteen people were killed in gunfire in Maine’s second-largest city on Wednesday night, rocking a tightly knit community and shattering the state’s image as a haven from the types of violent crime seen elsewhere in the country.
“Those people were just out to have a nice time,” he said. Other residents said Lewiston, which has struggled economically due to de-industrialisation in past decades, was accustomed to small-time crime and fighting, but that the shooting brought it into a new and painful reality. “We never used to have to worry about getting shot up like this," said Roger Lussier Jr.
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