2023-10-28 16:21:35
Robert Cardthe perpetrator of the mass shooting that killed 18 people on Thursday in Lewinston, Maine, and injured 60 others, was finally found in the last few hours: he had a bullet in the head and authorities believe he committed suicide.
“I breathe a sigh of relief tonight knowing that Robert Card is no longer a threat to anyone”The governor of Maine said at a press conference. Janet Mills, when referring to the 40-year-old murderer, who last Thursday, using automatic weapons, attacked everyone who crossed him in the quiet town of Lewiston, leaving behind an impressive trail of blood and innocent victims.
“He is dead (…) Maine State Police have located the body,” Mills confirmed. Maine Public Safety Commissioner Michael Sauschuck added that Card’s body was near a river in Lisbon Falls, a town just 15 kilometers from Lewinston.
Sauschuck omitted to certify whether Card committed suicide, only detailing that the clues found at the scene seem to indicate this, but that the final confirmation will correspond to the forensics and Justice. The police presumption suggests that, seeing himself with no chance of escape, Card chose to take his own life with one of the weapons he had used in the insane mass shooting that occurred on Thursday.
US media reported that Card’s body was found near a recycling centerfrom which he had recently been fired.
White House statement
President Joe Biden signed a statement this Saturday, noting that following Card’s death, “I will continue to do everything in my power to end this epidemic of gun violence. The community of Lewiston, and all Americans, deserve nothing less.” .
Authorities on Friday identified more of Card’s victims, ranging from a couple of regarding 70 years old to a 14-year-old boy who died with his father.
In the last 48 hours, Maine police and the FBI had led a massive search for Cardh, which even included a search with sonar and divers of the river near the place where the car with which Card escaped from Lewinston following the massacre appeared.
a ghost town
With authorities notifying him that Card was still in the area, Lewinston had become a ghost town, with residents barricaded in their homes. Drones, helicopters and armored vehicles had been deployed in the surrounding area. The 36 thousand residents of Lewinston were shocked by what happened.
Schools and businesses had closed their doors and the high school parking lot was taken over by police officers dressed in uniform and armed to the teeth.
Seven people, a woman and six men, lost their lives in a bowling alley, eight in a bar and restaurant, between the two places regarding twelve minutes away, and finally three more people died in the local hospital.
Witnesses at the Just-In-Time bowling alley described cHow customers hid under tables and in machines at the end of the tracks. “I threw myself on top of my daughter, and my mother on top of me,” Riley Dumont described to ABC. A photograph released by police showed a man dressed in a brown T-shirt entering the establishment, with a semi-automatic rifle over his shoulder.
The worst massacre of 2023
Wednesday’s massacre is the deadliest in the United States since that of the Uvalde school in Texas, where a shooter killed 19 children and two teachers in May 2022. The country is paying a high price for the proliferation of firearms. fire in its territory and the ease with which citizens have access to them.
Excluding suicides, more than 15,000 people have died from gun violence since the beginning of the year in the country, according to the non-governmental organization Gun Violence Archive. Maine is one of the states with the lowest homicide rate. The 18 deaths on Wednesday represent, according to the Everytown association, more than the annual average of murders by firearms in the state.
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