2023-10-26 15:32:23
Authorities in the United States are carrying out intensive searches this Thursday, October 26, to find the whereabouts of an army reservist who shot several people in a bowling alley and a bar-restaurant in Lewinston, state of Maine, in the north of the North American country. , on Wednesday night.
The man was identified by the police as 40-year-old Robert Card, who, in the midst of his attack, killed 22 people and left 50 injured, and then fled. His photograph was already broadcast by the main American media, after his face was recorded on security cameras in the area.
Although the reasons that motivated the crime are unknown so far, regarding the subject who caused the tragedy, it has been established that he was born on April 4, 1983, in a town called Bowdoin, near the place where the shooting took place.
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October 26, 2023
“We have confirmed 22 deaths and many, many more injuries,” Robert McCarthy, the councilman of Lewiston, a city of more than 36,000 inhabitants, told CNN.
In addition to expressing concern, “our hospitals are not equipped to handle this type of shooting,” at the same time specifying that the number of injured people ranged between 50 and 60 injured.
The latest preliminary reports and reports delivered by various media outlets in that area of the country have warned in the last few hours that Card, prior to his armed attack, was admitted to a mental health center for two weeks, although he has not yet been confirmed. disseminated more information about the treatment he was receiving.
It is only known that he claimed to have begun to hear voices in his head and had already begun to threaten the idea of carrying out a shooting at the military training base in Saco, in the state of Maine.
President Joe Biden is already aware of what happened, and expressed his full support for finding the whereabouts of the former armed soldier.
It is worth remembering that this new massacre would be one of the deadliest in the country in its recent history, after the one in Las Vegas in 2017 in the middle of a concert, leaving 58 dead and more than 500 injured.
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