US Gunman in '18 Dead' Mass Shooting Found Dead After Escape Attempt

On the 25th (local time), the suspect in a mass shooting that left 18 dead in Lewiston, Maine, on the U.S. East Coast, was found dead after a three-day manhunt.

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According to local media on the 27th, U.S. police officials announced that Robert Card (40), who was wanted as the suspect in the mass shooting at a bowling alley and restaurant in Lewiston, Maine, was found dead. The official stated that Card appears to have taken his own life with a firearm.

On the 25th, a man opened fire at a bowling alley and restaurant in Lewiston, killing 18 people and injuring 13. Local police identified Card as the suspect in the incident, but he fled immediately after the shooting and was not captured for three days.

Card had served in the reserves since 2002, held a firearms instructor certification, and was confirmed to have been hospitalized in a psychiatric facility last summer.

The police issued a shelter-in-place order for the Lewiston area where the incident occurred to pursue the suspect Card, warning residents that he was armed and extremely dangerous.

A notebook secured from Card’s family home contained what is presumed to be a suicide note, indicating his decision to take his own life after the crime, leading the police to track him with the possibility of an extreme choice in mind.

Accordingly, the police lifted the shelter-in-place order that had been issued in Lewiston.

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