CNN reports:
There were two active shooting incidents in the city of Lewiston — at Sparetime Recreation, a bowling alley on Mollison Way, and Schemengees Bar & Grille Restaurant on Lincoln Street, according to Lewiston police. State officials say the shootings began around 6:56 p.m. ET. Eyewitnesses described seeing people running away from the bowling alley. Lewiston is about 36 miles north of Portland and is the state’s second-largest city. A local councilor who spoke to CNN said the death toll could be as high as 22.
Lewiston police have identified 40-year-old Robert Card of Bowdoin as a person of interest, saying he should be “considered armed and dangerous.” Law enforcement officials in Maine say Card is a certified firearms instructor and a member of the US Army Reserve. Card had recently made threats to carry out a shooting at a National Guard facility in Saco, Maine, and also reported mental health issues, including hearing voices, the officials said.
Heavy.com reports:
Lewiston mass shooting person of interest Robert Card liked a number of political posts on X, formerly known as Twitter. Heavy reviewed the page shortly before it was suspended by X.
It shows that Card followed and/or liked posts by X’s CEO Elon Musk and Dallas Mavericks’ owner Mark Cuban as well as a professor who studies terrorism and a number of prominent conservative politicians and pundits, including Donald Trump Jr. and Tucker Carlson. He also liked and shared posts by CNBC, as well as posts on finance.
In March, he liked a tweet by Trump Jr. that read, “Given the incredible rise of trans/non-binary mass shooters in the last few years… by far the largest group committing as a percentage of population… maybe, rather than talking about guns we should be talking about lunatics pushing their gender affirming bullsh** on our kids?
Police in Maine are pursuing a suspect in a mass shooting that has left at least 16 people dead in the city of Lewiston
40-year-old Robert Card should be considered “armed and dangerous,” say officials https://t.co/0AoghRREvR pic.twitter.com/PqfkiigPzJ
— Bloomberg (@business) October 26, 2023
We are expanding the shelter in place advisory and school closings to include the town of Bowdoin. Please stay inside your homes while more than 100 investigators, both local and federal work to locate Robert Card who is a person of interest in the Lewiston shootings. pic.twitter.com/dqixmXbJAX
— Maine State Police (@MEStatePolice) October 26, 2023
Police are searching for “person of interest” Robert Card in the Maine mass shootings. Card is at large and police say he is considered “armed and dangerous.” pic.twitter.com/WwgVLpInq4
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 26, 2023
Last year there were 29 homicides in Maine.
Tonight 22 people have been killed by one man with a semi-auto rifle.
50-60 are wounded and those with severe injuries may not survive.
One man with a military battle rifle can cause a full year of tragedy in an instant. pic.twitter.com/sHgDXTs2AA
— K-12 School Shooting Database (@K12ssdb) October 26, 2023