1 of 2 Alert sent to Lewiston residents. It reads: “Warning: An active shooter is in Lewiston. Avoid the area and seek shelter immediately. Lewiston Authorities Lewiston Authorities will take further action as the situation eases.” Photo: Personal Archives. Warning sent to Lewiston residents. It reads: “Warning: An active shooter is in Lewiston. Avoid the area and seek shelter immediately. Lewiston Authorities Lewiston Authorities will take further action as the situation eases.” Photo: Personal Archives
26yearold Brazilian woman Larissa Felix received an alert from the government of Lewiston, Maine, USA, advising residents to seek shelter immediately because there was an active shooter in the city.
A 40yearold man attacked two facilities in the US state of Maine on the night of Wednesday (25), killing 18 people and injuring another 13, as the state’s governor, Janet Mills, published on Thursday (26). .
The suspect is at large, armed and considered dangerous. He would be 40 years old and is wanted by police in the cities of Lewiston, Boston and New York. According to the police, FBI agents also help with operations.
A shooting attack leaves dozens dead and dozens injured in the US
Larissa lives in Lewiston, a city where a bar was attacked by a gunman on Wednesday evening (25). The Brazilian often visited the restaurant with friends and was in the bar a week before the attack.
“It’s a feeling of fear and sadness […] We received notifications on our cell phones telling us to seek shelter and that there was a shooter operating in the area,” he said.
Although there are no friends or family among the victims, Larissa says she feels fear and sadness. “[A vítima] It is always an acquaintance of an acquaintance. My heart aches for her.”
2 of 2 locations where attacks occurred in the USA — Photo: Juan Silva/g1 Locations where attacks occurred in the USA — Photo: Juan Silva/g1
Maine police and government urged people to go to safe places and advised businesses and businesses to close their doors. Classes were suspended at Lewiston Public Schools on Thursday (26).
Larissa works as a caregiver at an animal shelter and didn’t go to work. “We are all at home. Apart from gas stations and pharmacies, no shops are open. I avoid going out on the streets, also to avoid disrupting the work of the police,” he said.
The city is quiet and safe, said the Brazilian. She states that she was not afraid to go anywhere alone, that she slept with the window open, and that sometimes she did not even lock her own car when she got home.
Maine, the state in which Lewiston is located, has low crime rates: a total of 29 homicides were recorded in 2022.
Now Larissa says she’s going to change her routine and spend “quite a while at home.”
“I won’t go alone anymore, I’ll check to see if everything is locked [em casa] and be careful in public. After a situation like that, it makes me a little afraid to just go to the supermarket.”
Deadliest massacre of 2023 in the USA
According to a survey by the Gun Violence Archive Institute, the massacre is the deadliest of 2023 in the United States. The most violent attack in the country’s modern history occurred in Las Vegas in 2017, in which 58 people were murdered and 441 were injured.
Since the beginning of this year, 565 mass shootings have been recorded in the country, resulting in 595 deaths. During the same period last year, there were 559 incidents in which 545 people died.