Maine authorities have lifted the shelter-in-place order for several communities that had been imposed after Wednesday’s mass shooting; However, four cities still have hunting restrictions in place as the search for the gunman continues.
General closures have been lifted, however, people are prohibited from hunting in Lewiston, Lisbon, Bowdoin and Monmouth, Maine Department of Safety Commissioner Mike Sauschuck told reporters at a news conference Friday.
“This does not mean that the crisis is over, but that the emergency is over,” he stated. “…We want our residents to remain vigilant.”
Authorities pledged Friday to hold at least one news conference each day to inform reporters, local residents and the public about the status of the search for shooting suspect Robert Card, 40, who they say , also injured at least 13 people in the massacre.
Previous media reports, combined with social media posts from victims’ relatives, had identified 16 of the people who died in the shootings at Just-In-Time Recreation and Schemengees Bar & Grille, plus two who they were injured:
- Bob Violette, 76, a longtime children’s bowling instructor, was working with a youth league when the shooter walked into the bowling alley.
- Joseph Walker, manager of Schemengees Bar & Grille, died trying to stop the gunman, his father told NBC News.
- Tricia Asselin, 53, worked part-time at Just-In-Time Recreation, but was bowling for fun when the shooting occurred, her brother told CNN.
- Steven Vozzella, who just got married last year, was at Schemengees Bar for a cornhole tournament for deaf adults, his family told ABC.
- Bill Bracket was also shot and killed at the bar cornhole tournament, his family told ABC, and was remembered by a friend on Facebook who wrote: “I’ll never forget the laughs I made you when I was trying to learn some sign language in pit of corn.”
- Bryan MacFarlane, 40, a member of Lewiston’s deaf community, was participating in the tournament after recently returning to his native Maine, according to CNN.
- Michael Deslauriers II and Jason Walker had been bowling with their wives and “several young children,” whom the two husbands protected before attacking the gunman, Deslauriers’ father wrote on Facebook.
- Bill Young and his 14-year-old son Aaron were shot to death at Just-In-Time while they were with their bowling league, Bill’s brother told Reuters.
- Arthur Strout, a 42-year-old father of five, was killed in Schemengees, his father Arthur Barnard told WCVB.
- Tommy Conrad, 34, was manager of the bowling alley and is survived by his 9-year-old daughter, WMYW reported.
- Joshua Seal worked as an American Sign Language interpreter for the Pine Tree Society, his wife, Elizabeth, said on Facebook.
- Peyton Brewer-Ross, father of a 2-year-old girl, was killed at Schemengees Bar and Grille, according to a CNN report.
- Ron Morin was remembered by his family as an upbeat, somewhat average guy at Taboo Hair Design in Lewiston, where his mother has worked for more than years, the Bangor Daily News reported.
- Maxx Hathaway was killed in Schemengees and was remembered as a “goofy and down-to-earth person, loved to joke and always had an uplifting attitude,” his sister wrote on GoFundMe.
- Injured: Zoey Hutchinson, 10, who spoke to ABC News the morning after she was grazed by a bullet and took shelter with her mother at the Just-In-Time bowling alley.
- Injured: Justin Karcher, 23, who is on a ventilator in the ICU, where doctors have to “keep resuscitating him” after emergency surgery, his mother told the Washington Post. Four years ago, Karcher witnessed the death of his father “in front of him” after he was shot to death in the parking lot of a Walmart, Jessica Karcher said.
Card, of Bowdoin, Maine, remains at large and has eight warrants for murder. He should be considered “armed and dangerous,” officials say, and they urge anyone who believes they saw him not to approach him and to contact police immediately.
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