Police are looking for Robert Card, 40, after the attacks at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston last evening, officials said.
Hundreds of law enforcement officers for a second day searched for mass shooting suspect Robert Card, accused of killing 18 people in Lewiston, Maine, in the nation’s latest instance of gunfire at public places as Americans went about their lives.
An arrest warrant for eight counts of murder — because only eight identifications of the 18 dead had been made — has been issued, Maine State police said Thursday morning.
Search warrants were carried out in Bowdoin, the town east of Lewiston where Card lived, authorities said.
Police broadcast messages over loudspeakers during the search warrants, which a spokesperson for Maine State Police said was routine during the execution of warrants like them.
Residents in Lewiston, Maine’s second-largest city but still a small one at around 37,000, were told for a second day to shelter in place. In Lisbon, where Card’s SUV was found, a similar warning was issued. Schools would be closed Friday, both cities said.
Meanwhile, stories of the dead began to emerge.
Joseph “Joey” Walker was a manager at Schemengees Bar and Grille, one of the two businesses where the gunman opened fire at around 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Walker was shot to death, his father, Leroy Walker Sr., said. He described waiting at the hospital in Lewiston where almost all the shooting patients were taken, hoping for word — along with others.
“It was awful to see the families sitting there. None of them knew nothing, just like me, they knew nothing,” Leroy Walker said.
He said the family was told that Walker died a hero, because he grabbed a butcher knife and went to confront the gunman. Leroy Walker said that makes his grief even worse.
“My kid was a super kid with people,” he said.
At the Just-in-Time Recreation bowling alley, the other place targeted by the gunman that night, it was youth night when the shooter entered and started firing.
Source : NBC News