The 40-year-old man was quickly identified by the police. At least 18 people were shot at a bowling alley and restaurant in Lewiston, Maine.
End of the run. The suspected perpetrator of one of the worst murders in recent years in the United States, in which at least 18 people died, was found dead this Friday, October 27th, in the evening after presumably committing suicide with a firearm.
“He is dead (…) Maine State Police have found the body,” Maine Governor Janet Mills said during a news conference late Friday evening, marking the end of two days of fear and confinement for residents of the Small town Lewiston.
Probably suicide
Robert Card, 40, an Army reservist, appears to have committed suicide with a gun, according to Maine public safety officer Michael Sauschuck. Authorities said they could not say when the suspect ended his life.
Robert Card’s body was found at 7:45 p.m. (11:45 p.m. GMT) near a river in Lisbon Falls, about twenty minutes from the town of Lewiston, where the murder took place. His car was found nearby.
On Wednesday, October 25, this man armed with a semi-automatic rifle opened fire at a bowling alley in Lewinston and about ten minutes later at a bar-restaurant in this city of 36,000, killing 18 people and wounding 13. “Our hospitals are not equipped to handle this type of shooting,” local elected official Robert McCarthy lamented to CNN.
Seven people died in the bowling alley, eight in the bar-restaurant and three injured people died in hospital.
Late in the afternoon, with the suspect still unable to be located, local authorities announced the lifting of the area’s lockdown, while warning that the situation remained “dangerous” and urging residents to remain “vigilant.” .
The deadliest attack since Uvalde
Wednesday’s killing is the worst in the United States since the one at Uvalde School in Texas, where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in May 2022.
Condemning a “tragic and senseless” act, President Joe Biden called on Congress on Thursday, Oct. 26, to pass “an assault weapons ban” — another such call from Democrats despite not having a majority for one in decades Such change was found in the legislation.
“Americans shouldn’t have to live like this,” he emphasized in a press release on Friday evening, referring to “two dramatic days.”
Excluding suicides, more than 15,000 people have died from gun violence in the country since the start of the year, and Wednesday’s attack is the deadliest in that period, according to the Gun Violence Archive Association (GVA).