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SaltWire's Atlantic regional weather forecast for October 26, 2023 | SaltWireLEWISTON, Maine - Police in Maine extended their round-the-clock search for suspected Lewiston mass shooter Robert R. Card into the early hours of Friday morning, as the U.S. Army reservist eluded a manhunt following the bar and bowling alley massacres that killed 18 people and wounded 13 more.
Police did not know if Card was inside when the operation began and the amplified messages were"standard search warrant announcements," a Maine Department of Public Safety spokesperson said, adding that officials were"doing their due diligence" in tracking down leads. Card, 40, is a sergeant at a nearby U.S. Army Reserve base who law enforcement officials said had been temporarily committed to a mental health facility over the summer.
The bloodshed rattled towns throughout Androscoggin County that were under shelter-in-place orders as they joined the growing list of U.S. communities to suffer from a gun massacre. The 18 fatalities are close to the annual number of homicides that normally occur in Maine, which has fluctuated between 16 and 29 since 2012, according to Maine State Police.
Guns are lightly regulated in Maine, where about half of all adults live in a household with a gun, according to a 2020 study by RAND Corporation. Maine does not require a permit to buy or carry a gun, and it does not have so-called"red flag" laws seen in some other states that allow law enforcement to temporarily disarm people deemed to be dangerous.
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