Authorities pressed their manhunt for Robert Card, the man who allegedly killed 18 people and injured 13 more in a killing spree at a restaurant and bowling alley.
The manhunt continued Friday for the suspect in that killed 18 people and injured 13 in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday night.
Authorities are searching for 40-year-old , Maine Public Safety Commissioner Mike Sauschuck told reporters during a news conference Thursday. Police said he should be considered armed and dangerous.
Hundreds of police and about 80 FBI agents, as well as federal marshals and people from other agencies, are involved in the search.
Residents of local communities remained under shelter-in-place advisories.
Details about many of the shooting victims were being confirmed as the search for Card intensified.
Heavily armed law enforcement officers were seen surrounding a house in the nearby town of Bowdoin, where Card is from, Thursday night.
„Law enforcement is at a home in Bowdoin as part of the investigation into the Lewiston shootings and the search for Robert Card,“ the Maine Department of Public Safety confirmed. But officers completed their search and cleared the scene without finding the suspect.
The deadly rampage began a little before 7 p.m. Wednesday evening at Sparetime Recreation, a bowling alley in Lewiston, where seven people were killed; six males and one female died of apparent gunshot wounds, state police Col. William Ross said during the news conference.
At the second shooting scene, , about 4 miles away, seven males inside the establishment and one outside were killed, Ross said. Three other people died at an area hospital.
„For me it was incomprehensible that this can happen in Lewiston, Maine,“ Mayor Carl Sheline .
„Our city is facing this incredible loss and I am completely broken for our city, and my heart really goes out to the victims and their families right now,“ Sheline said.
Investigators are looking into whether the suspect was targeting a specific individual, who is believed to be a current or former girlfriend, two U.S. officials and a former high-ranking official told CBS News. It wasn’t clear if the individual was at either of the two locations that were attacked.
Police received a 911 call about the bowling alley shooting at about 6:56 p.m. EDT, Ross said. Just over 10 minutes later, at about 7:08 p.m., police received multiple calls about the second shooting. Police from Lewiston and the surrounding area responded to the shootings.
„As you can imagine, this was a very fast-paced, fast-moving, very fluid scene, very dangerous scene that these guys and girls were going into,“ Ross said.
The weapon used in the shootings was a semi-automatic rifle with an extended magazine and scope, CBS News senior investigative producer Pat Milton reported.Suspect’s military and mental health history
The suspect, a sergeant first class in the U.S. Army Reserve, is a petroleum supply specialist, according to the Army. He enlisted in the Reserve in 2002 and doesn’t have any combat deployments. He is assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 304th Infantry Regiment in Saco, Maine, U.S. Army spokesperson Bryce Dubee told CBS News.
A Maine law enforcement bulletin seen by CBS News had said the suspect was a trained firearms instructor, but an updated bulletin said there’s no indication that he was an instructor.
He recently reported mental health issues, including hearing voices, according to the bulletin. He had also threatened to shoot up the National Guard base in Saco, the bulletin said, and he was reported to have been committed to a mental health facility for two weeks this summer.
