Maine mass shooter opened fire at children’s bowling league and cornhole night: reports
Maine cities are on lockdown after double mass shooting kills at least 16 and wounds dozens of others
By IGOR DERYSH |
Hundreds of officers are hunting for a “person of interest” after two mass shootings killed at least 16 people and injured dozens of others at a restaurant and bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday night.
Police identified Robert Card, 40, as a person of interest in the shooting. Card is a trained firearms instructor believed to be in the Army Reserve stationed out of Saco, Maine, according to police.
Card recently reported mental health issues, including “hearing voices and threats to shoot up the National Guard Base in Saco” and was reported to have been committed to a mental health facility for two weeks during summer 2023 and subsequently released, a police bulletin said.
The dual shootings took place at Schemengees Bar and Grille and at Sparetime Recreation, a bowling alley. Numerous children and parents were at Sparetime for a children’s bowling league at the time of the shooting, according to the Associated Press.
“It’s scary,” 10-year-old Zoey Levesque told WMTW-TV. “I had never thought I’d grow up and get a bullet in my leg. And it’s just like, why? Why do people do this?”
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Riley Dumont, whose daughter was bowling at the time of the shooting, told the outlet that she “laid on top” of her daughter to keep her safe while her father, a retired police officer, helped usher people to safety.
“Next thing I know, he was just taking the group that we were in and just corralling us in the corner,” she told WMTW. “He put tables over us and just made sure we were safe. He just kind of went into action at that point. It felt like it lasted forever.”
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