Maine police report seven killed at bowling alley, eight at restaurant in mass shooting
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Police appeared to be making an arrest at Robert Card’s house on Thursday night, according to CNN. Officers could be heard shouting for someone to come out and walk to the front of the property and their crew was asked to switch off their lights.
Officers ordered someone inside to come out of the house “with nothing in their hands” and that their “safety could be guaranteed.”
As a manhunt to catch the “armed and dangerous” suspect wanted in connection to two mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine, that left 18 people dead and 13 injured, nears its 24th hour, CNN reports loud bangs from the vicinity of suspect Robert Card’s home in the vicinity of Bowdoin.
There was speculation that the noise could have been flash bangs used by police in stand-offs with armed suspects. Shortly after, a video emerged of law enforcement outside a property with a loudhailer heard to announce: “FBI! Open the door!”
On Wednesday night, a gunman opened fire in the Just-in-Time Recreation bowling alley and then the Schemengees Bar & Grille at around 7pm. Terrifying surveillance footage grabs showed the shooter armed with a rifle. The first victims have now been named by family members.
An intensive manhunt for 40-year-old Mr Card began and he was formally identified as the suspect in the now active homicide investigation during a press conference on Thursday morning.
Residents across Maine have been sheltered in place since Wednesday night.
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Watch: Maine state rep says streets ‘eerily quiet’ amid shelter-in-place order
Maine police say they are executing warrant
“Law enforcement officials are currently on Meadow Road in Bowdoin to execute several search warrants. The announcements being heard over a loud speaker are standard search warrant announcements when executing a warrant to ensure the safety of all involved,” said Maine State Police on Thursday evening.
Maine officials say they don’t know if Card in house
A Maine Department of Public Safety spokesperson, Shannon Moss, told CNN that law enforcement is “not positive Robert Card is in this house,” and that police were “simply doing our due diligence.”
Maine Gun Safety Coalition calls for assault weapons ban
The Maine Gun Safety Coalition grieves with the families and friends who lost loved ones in the mass shooting last night. We watched in horror as the tragedy in Lewiston, Maine happened before our eyes – the result of our weak gun laws. We call on our elected officials tonight to stop bowing to the gun lobby and look squarely at the face of what has happened in Maine’s second largest city. At a minimum, the Maine Gun Safety Coalition believes an assault weapons ban is necessary to try to prevent more such tragedies in our state.
Police outside Card’s house demanding he comes out
Police demanding Robert Card come out of Maine home
Stunned relative of Robert Card speaks out
Maine mass shooting suspect Robert Card’s sister-in-law has added some colour to the reports of the 40-year-old’s current state of mind.
After US Army reservist Mr Card was accused of killing 18 people on Wednesday night — and while a manhunt for the Bowdoin resident remains underway — Karen Card spoke out about her brother-in-law toThe Daily Beast.
Ms Card, who is married to the suspect’s brother, said that she has known the suspect her “whole life”.
“He is quiet but the most loving, hardworking, and kind person that I know,” she said on Thursday.
“But in the past year, he had an acute episode of mental health, and it’s been a struggle.”
Police appear to be making ‘arrest’ at Robert Card’s home
CNN reporting that their crew was ordered to turn off lights, while officers could be heard shouting “...under arrest come out with your hands up.”
Officers could be heard shouting for someone to come out and walk to the front of the property and they ordered a person inside to come out of the house “with nothing in their hands” and that their “safety could be guaranteed.”
Susan Collins says high capacity magazines should be banned
Senator Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine, told a news conference on Thursday evening that “it is more important that we ban very high-capacity magazines” rather than assault-style weapons.
“I think that would have more input and more effectiveness,” said Ms Collins.
Republican US Senator Susan Collins addresses shooting in Maine
Maine passed a law to try to prevent mass shootings. Some say more is needed after Lewiston killings
Barely four years before a gunman’s deadly rampage in Maine, a state that is staunchly protective of gun rights, the governor signed a law aimed at preventing a mass shooting like the one Wednesday night that claimed at least 18 lives.
It was called a “yellow flag” law, different from the “red flag” laws cropping up in other states to seize weapons from gun owners viewed as a threat. In a sign of the pro-Second Amendment mindset in Maine, a gun-rights group helped write the law, and critics said that, while it was a first step toward stronger gun safety measures, the state could save more lives by doing more — like passing a red flag law.
The yellow flag law and permissive gun measures in Maine are coming under greater scrutiny in the aftermath of a massacre that authorities say was carried out by a man who was committed to a mental health facility for two weeks this past summer and had reported “hearing voices and threats to shoot up” a military base.
It was not clear whether anyone had used the yellow flag law in the suspect’s case, but gun-control advocates seized on the tragedy Thursday to blame the death of 18 people in the shooting as a product of “weak gun laws.”
Congressman says shooting has changed his mind on assault rifles
US Rep Jared Golden, a Democrat who represents Lewiston, told a press conference that his opposition to a ban on assault weapons had been a mistake and he had changed his mind on the issue.
“I have opposed calls to ban deadly weapons of war like the assault rifle used to carry out this crime,” Mr Golden said.
“The time has now come for me to take responsibility for this failure,” he said. “Which is why I now call on the United States Congress to ban assault rifles like the one used by the sick perpetrator of this mass killing.”
Mr Golden asked for the forgiveness of those who had lost loved ones in the mass shooting and his constituents.
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