Maine shooting: All victims identified, manhunt for Robert Card continues

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Robert Card, the man accused of killing 18 people and wounding 13 others in Maine, was still on the loose as of Friday afternoon.

Authorities scoured the woods and hundreds of acres of family-owned property, sent dive teams with sonar to the bottom of a river and scrutinized a possible suicide note Friday in the second day of their intensive search foraccused of fatally shooting 18 people and wounding 13 at a bowling alley and a bar in Maine.

"We’re going to be all over the place," Sauschuck said. "That’s not saying that we know that the individual is in this house, you know, in that house or they’re in that swath of land, this acreage." Law enforcement officials conduct a manhunt for suspect Robert Card following a mass shooting on October 27, 2023 in Monmouth, Maine.

Authorities say Card, 40, who has firearms training, opened fire at a bar and a bowling alley Wednesday in Lewiston, Maine’s second-largest city about 15 miles from Bowdoin. Wednesday's shootings left 18 people dead and 13 wounded, three of whom were hospitalized in critical condition, authorities said. Sixteen of the dead were males and two were female, Lindsey Chasteen of the Office of Chief Medical Examiner wrote in an email.

Police asked residents to continue to stay home in Lewiston and surrounding communities Friday. Schools, public buildings and many businesses remained closed. Bates College in Lewiston canceled classes Friday and postponed the inauguration of the school’s first Black president.Authorities acknowledged the difficulty of having residents stay home a second day, but Lewiston Police Chief David St. Pierre asked for patience and promised that they were constantly evaluating the request.

 

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