Mass Shooting, Maine’s Lewiston (AP) — 18 people were shot and killed on Wednesday night in Lewiston, Maine, at a restaurant and bowling alley by a U.S. Army reserve, according to the authorities. Robert Card, 40, of Bowdoin, was the target of a major search before his death on Friday.
A database kept up to date by The Associated Press, USA Today, and Northeastern University in collaboration with the university indicates that the shooting in the second-largest city in Maine is the 36th mass homicide in the US this year. Every mass murder from all weapons since 2006 that resulted in the deaths of four or more persons within a day, excluding the perpetrator, is included in the database. What is known about the suspect, his demise, the location of the shooting, and the events that followed is as follows:
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SUSPECT OF MASS SHOOTING AND WHO IS HE?
Police have identified 40-year-old Robert Card of Bowdoin, Maine, as the culprit in the murderous assault. At a news conference on Friday night, Governor Janet Mills said that Card had been discovered deceased in the neighbouring Lisbon Falls.
Card had just started working at a recycling plant when police discovered his death there. Commissioner Michael Sauschuck of the Department of Public Safety said that teams had searched the Maine Recycling Corp. facility on Thursday evening. He claimed that when a different state police squad arrived back on Friday, they discovered Card’s corpse in a caravan that had not been checked, along with many weaponry.
Card seems to have shot herself, according to Sauschuck, and died as a result. The Associated Press was informed by ATF special agent in charge in Boston, Jim Ferguson, that the firearms used in the massacre were lawfully obtained. He refused to provide the precise make, model, or number of the guns that were found, although numerous were found. Ferguson stated, “There were a lot more than three.”
Card was an Army reservist who had been brought by police for an assessment in mid-July, according to sources, after military officials became worried about his strange behaviour. Card’s behaviour raised concerns for the Army Reserve’s 3rd Battalion, 304th Infantry Regiment, according to the New York Army National Guard. The concerns stemmed from the unit’s training at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York.
WHERE WAS THE SHOOTING PERFORMED?
According to Lewiston Police, the incident happened on Wednesday night at the Just-In-Time Recreation bowling alley, which is approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) away, as well as Schemengees Bar and Grille. A kids’ bowling league was taking place at Just-In-Time, and many parents and kids were there.