An American flag is about to half mast Saturday on a soccer discipline in Lisbon Falls, Maine, just some hundred yards from a recycling facility the place legislation enforcement discovered the physique of Robert Card, the suspect on this week’s mass shootings.

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An American flag is about to half mast Saturday on a soccer discipline in Lisbon Falls, Maine, just some hundred yards from a recycling facility the place legislation enforcement discovered the physique of Robert Card, the suspect on this week’s mass shootings.

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Authorities in Maine stated Saturday that the physique of the suspect in Wednesday’s mass shooting in Lewiston, 40-year outdated Robert Card, was discovered inside a trailer near a recycling middle Friday night.

A self-inflicted gunshot wound was the obvious reason behind his dying, after a two-day manhunt prompted by the most recent U.S. mass taking pictures — at a bowling alley and bar — that left 18 individuals useless and 13 wounded.

Maine Public Safety Commissioner Mike Sauschuck stated close by trailers had beforehand been cleared twice by police groups, earlier than one other state police staff responding to issues by the positioning’s proprietor had discovered Card’s physique alongside two weapons inside a trailer in an overspill automotive park.

Sauschuck informed reporters in Lewiston that police had recovered one other weapon, that he known as a “long gun,” contained in the suspect’s automotive, however didn’t present additional particulars on the weapon.

A word discovered throughout the investigation had been addressed by Card to a “loved one,” Sauschuck stated, and although it was not an specific suicide word, it did embody entry codes to his financial institution accounts and a cellphone that investigators are presently making an attempt to look at.

On Friday, police released the names of all 18 victims of the Wednesday evening gun rampage that devastated the neighborhood. The useless ranged in age from a pair of their 70s to a teenage boy.

The metropolis’s police chief told Maine Public that he and a few of his officers knew among the victims or their households, given the close-knit nature of the neighborhood within the state’s second largest metropolis.

“Seeing these pictures come up on the board, I know a couple of them myself,” stated Lewiston Police Chief David St. Pierre, talking at a information convention Friday with the photographs of the victims proven on a display behind him.

A second of silence was noticed whereas authorities learn out the names of the useless, and confirmed photographs supplied by their kin.

Maine public security officers announced that the physique of the only real alleged shooter had been discovered useless close to the native Androscoggin River, within the small city of Lisbon Falls, about 10 miles southeast of Lewiston.

Officials specific aid after the large manhunt ends

Local and state officers expressed aid after legislation enforcement had scoured a number of native communities that have been positioned on lock down, with shelter-in-place orders issued to all residents and Card described as armed and harmful.

Across rural areas of probably the most forested state within the nation, lots of of officers from varied native forces and companies had been known as as much as assist in the seek for the suspect.

People will now have the ability to collect in particular person for the primary time because the taking pictures to carry occasions like vigils, which had solely been happening on-line attributable to that lively manhunt.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills stated that it was now “a time to heal,” whereas acknowledging that although Card would possibly now not pose a menace, there could be many individuals for whom his dying would “not bring solace.”

After she had knowledgeable the White House of the suspect’s dying, President Biden issued a press release calling the episode a “tragic two days” for your complete nation in addition to town of Lewiston.

“Once again, an American community and American families have been devastated by gun violence,” Biden’s assertion added, earlier than referring to the actions he stated Republicans in Congress should make to assist finish the nation’s gun violence epidemic. “Americans should not have to live like this.”