A man wanted in the fatal shooting of 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in Maine was found dead on Friday, ending a frantic statewide search.
Robert Card, 40, of Bowdoin, Maine, was wanted on eight counts of murder following two separate shootings on Wednesday evening in Lewiston, state police said. Thirteen additional people were injured in the shootings, according to authorities.
Only eight of the victims had been identified at the time that an arrest warrant was issued for Card, resulting in the eight counts of murder, state police said Thursday morning.
The shootings took place around 7 p.m. and placed multiple nearby cities under shelter-in-place advisories as authorities warned that Card might have been armed and dangerous.
Schools across the region, including in the state’s most populous city of Portland, 30 miles south of Lewiston, were canceled on Thursday and Friday, and businesses also announced they were shutting down amid the manhunt.
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