Posts by The Maine Monitor
An Ellsworth police officer was one of several law enforcement officials notified of the Lewiston mass shooting suspect’s threats of violence in the months before he killed 18 people and injured 13 more at a bar and bowling alley last Wednesday.
With the search for Robert Card now extending into a third day, investigators face a massive challenge: the suspect in Maine’s deadliest mass shooting has escaped in a state with an estimated 17.5 million acres of forest land and numerous rivers, vast expanses of uninhabited land dotted by small communities, farms, logging roads and two-lane highways.
In the past three years, state lawmakers have proposed nearly four dozen bills to regulate the sale, carry and liability of guns in Maine, but most have not passed the Legislature. A “yellow flag” law enacted in 2019 lets law enforcement take guns away from someone they suspect of posing a threat to themselves or others, but officials concede it is underutilized.
In the wake of shootings that left at least 18 dead in Maine’s second-largest city, local residents and officials expressed shock that the nation’s epidemic of mass shootings had come to their community and grappled to make sense of the past day’s events.
A manhunt involving at least 100 law enforcement personnel continues in Maine today in the wake of mass shootings in Lewiston Wednesday night that left at least 18 dead and 13 wounded.