UPDATE: 16 KILLED IN US MASS SHOOTING, POLICE LAUNCH MANHUNT
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In the deadliest mass shooting of the year in the United States, at least sixteen people were killed at a pub and a bowling alley. On Thursday, police in the US state of Maine launched a massive manhunt for the gunman.
The small town of Lewiston saw dozens more individuals reported hurt during the rampage, and although the official death toll was not available, local officials guessed that between 16 and 22 people had died.
Lewiston was placed under lockdown on Thursday morning, with people being told to stay inside and schools shuttered.
Authorities declared that Robert Card, a guy who was seen entering the Lewiston bowling alley with an extended clip on his semi-automatic rifle and pointing it, should be taken into custody.
Reporters showed footage of terrified bystanders leaving the venue as soon as the shooting began on Wednesday night.
CNN was informed by an unidentified survivor that he was only 15 feet (5 metres) away from the gunman when he started shooting. At first, he believed it to be a balloon popping.
“And as soon as I turned and saw it was not a balloon and he was holding a weapon, I just booked it down the lane and I slid basically into where the pins are and climbed up into the machine and was on top of the machines for about 10 minutes until the cops got there,” he told CNN.
Several law enforcement sources claim that Card is a trained firearms instructor and a member of the US Army Reserve.
Robert McCarthy, a city councillor from Lewiston, told CNN on Wednesday night that as many as 22 people might have died; however, some estimated that number at 16.
Maine public safety official Mike Sauschuck said he was not prepared to give a death toll, calling it “a very fluid situation.”
He told reporters that police were flooding the streets in search of the gunman.
“We have literally hundreds of police officers working around the state of Maine to investigate this case, to locate Mr. Card,” he said.
President Joe Biden made calls — stepping away from a state dinner honoring Australia’s prime minister — to Maine’s governor, its two senators and a local congressman to offer federal support, the White House said.
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