“The other folks that I knew that were there either as witnesses or family members of witnesses it’s obviously traumatic,” Levesque said. “It’s going to be with me for the rest of my life, and it’s really hard for me to explain that.” “There’s going to be very few people in this community that have not been touched by this,” he said. The likeliness of this having direct impact for so many here is so real.”Īuburn Mayor Jason Levesque lost friends in the shooting, he told “CNN This Morning.” A teenager who went to school with his son was shot and is expected to recover, he said. “It was family league activity at the bowling alley. Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce President Shanna Cox on Thursday called the scene of both attacks “family locations.”

“Lewiston is known for our strength and grit and we will need both in the days to come.” Lewiston Mayor Carl Sheline is “heartbroken for our city and our people,” he said. President Joe Biden has spoken by phone with Maine lawmakers and “offered full federal support in the wake of this horrific attack,” the White House said in a statement. “This city did not deserve this terrible assault on its citizens, on its peace of mind, on its sense of security. “It’s a close-knit community with a long history of hard work, of persistence, of faith, of opening its big heart to people everywhere,” Mills said. It adds to a grim docket of 565 such incidents, where four or more people are shot excluding the shooter, across the country this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The rampage in Maine is the deadliest US mass shooting since the Uvalde school massacre.Lewiston is the state's second-largest city and is located about 36 miles north of Portland. Police are urging residents to shelter in place and report any suspicious activity to authorities.He is a certified firearms instructor and a member of the US Army Reserves, according to law enforcement. Robert Card, 40, is facing an arrest warrant for eight counts of murder and should be considered armed and dangerous, police said.Law enforcement sources said a search of the suspect's last known address was conducted by FBI SWAT teams Thursday. An intensive manhunt is still underway for a suspect in Wednesday's shooting rampage at a bowling alley and a restaurant that left at least 18 dead and 13 injured in Lewiston, Maine, according to authorities.

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