Maine authorities are sifting through more than 500 leads as the search for Lewiston shooting suspect Robert Card intensifies, searching rivers, from the air and from the ground.
Shortly after noon, armed deputies and U.S. Marshals rushed down a street near Robert Card’s sister’s home in Monmouth County, Maine.
A child and an elderly woman were taken from the property, but neither the woman nor the child were taken into police custody.
Meanwhile, divers and sonar have been deployed in the river near where the culprit’s car was found.
“We are not saying the suspect is in the water. [But] you’re going to see a lot of activity [at the Androscoggin River]” explained Public Safety Commissioner Mike Sauschuck at a press conference at Lewiston City Hall on Friday morning.
An aerial patrol that includes planes and drones has been deployed in Androscoggin County, near the Lisbon boat launch where Card’s Subaru was found Wednesday night, Sauschuck said.
Armed officers were also seen searching a farm in Lisbon, Maine, on Friday morning, not far from the pier.
“We just heard from a man who claims to work on the property who says he heard gunshots.” HearstTV’s Amy Lu wrote in of the search.
The thick forests around the rural area are being monitored from above, in case there is any sign of the military-trained Card, who, sources told the Post, would be able to hide in the forest for days if he wanted to.
Sauschuck also admitted that police were “still days away” from fully processing the crime scenes at both the Just-In-Time Recreation bowling alley and the Schemengees Bar and Grille, where the shootings took place.
Maine State Police hold a news conference at Lewiston City Hall to discuss the mass shooting and manhunt in Lewiston. Reuters Armed officers were also seen searching a farm in Lisbon, Maine. Getty Images Authorities are also struggling to follow up on “530-plus tips and leads.”REUTERS
Eighteen people were killed – of whom only eight have been officially identified – and 13 more were wounded between the two locations, and agents are working to catalog each shot fired, he explained.
Authorities are also struggling to follow up on “more than 530 tips and leads” that have come in since the shooting, Sauschuck added.
Residents of Lewiston and surrounding Auburn, Bowdoin and Lisbon remain under shelter-in-place orders nearly 48 hours after the suspect opened fire, the commissioner said.
Investigators searching for alleged Maine mass shooter Robert Card reported finding a mysterious note in his home in Bowdoin. Authorities are trying to determine if the note provides clues about Wednesday night’s massacre. Robert Miller Robert Card, 40, joined the Army and was a weapons instructor in the U.S. Army Reserve. He was hospitalized in a mental health facility in July after exhibiting strange behavior while at Camp Smith near West Point in New York. Lewiston Maine PD/Facebook / BACKGRID
Sauschuck promised the restrictions would be an “ongoing conversation.”
“Does it make sense for those orders to remain in effect? “They haven’t changed in any way,” Sauschuck said.
“We realize we want to keep our community safe… but they have some negative impacts on families going to school, businesses and all those things.”
A massive manhunt is underway for suspected Maine mass shooter Robert Card, who is the prime suspect in two shootings in Lewiston on Wednesday that left 18 people dead and 13 others injured. Robert Miller Getty Images The thick forests around the rural area are being monitored from above.Getty Images
While Card remains elusive, officials said the Army reservist’s loved ones are cooperating with the investigation, although they declined to provide details about what the family has told them so far.
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“We are absolutely heartbroken,” Card’s sister-in-law, Katie O’Neill, told The Post.
“This is incredible. We are doing everything we can with law enforcement, providing all the information we can. “Our hearts and prayers are constantly with these poor families, we will not be making any further statements at this time.”
Shortly after Friday’s news conference, authorities in varying degrees of tactical gear were seen in a wooded area of Monmouth and on a farm in Lisbon, not far from the pier.
“We just heard from a man who claims to work on the property who says he heard gunshots,” HearstTV’s Amy Lu wrote in X about this latest search.
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