A person wished within the deadly capturing of 18 folks at a bowling alley and a restaurant in Maine was found dead on Friday, ending a frantic statewide search.
Robert Card, 40, of Bowdoin, Maine, was wished on eight counts of homicide following two separate shootings Wednesday night in Lewiston, state police mentioned. 13 folks had been injured within the shootings, in response to authorities.
Card’s physique was discovered with an obvious self-inflicted gunshot wound at 7:45 p.m. native time close to the Androscoggin River in Lisbon Falls after an intensive 48-hour manhunt, Maine Division of Public Security Commissioner Mike Sauschuck mentioned at a information convention late Friday at Lewiston Metropolis Corridor. Lisbon Falls is about 10 miles southeast of the place the shootings passed off.
Households of the victims and the suspected gunman had been among the many first to learn when Card’s physique was discovered. Officers declined to supply extra details about how the physique was found however mentioned they are going to share extra at a briefing at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Solely eight of the victims had been recognized on the time that an arrest warrant was issued for Card, ensuing within the eight counts of homicide, state police mentioned Thursday morning. At a news conference Friday, the Maine Division of Public Security launched the names, ages and images of all 18 folks killed on Wednesday night time.
Maine Division of Public Security through Related Press
The shootings passed off round 7 p.m. and positioned a number of close by cities underneath shelter-in-place advisories as authorities warned that Card might need been armed and harmful.
Colleges throughout the area, together with within the state’s most populous city of Portland, 30 miles south of Lewiston, had been canceled on Thursday and Friday, and companies additionally introduced they had been shutting down amid the manhunt.
Shruti Rajkumar contributed to reporting.
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