2023-10-27 21:10:13
By land, air and waterhundreds of law enforcement officers intensified this Friday search and capture operation of Robert Card, the military reservist who killed 18 people and injured 13 others in a double mass shooting at Lewiston bowling alley and barin Maine. Two days after the massacre, the suspect, defined as “armed and very dangerous” continued on the run at the time of writing these lines. And the authorities urged the “patience” to the residents of the area, who in several towns and counties are still under instructions to stay indoors and cannot even cry and experience the trauma of this tragedy in community.
Part of the search this Friday focused on the Androscoggin Riverwhere troops were moving, including diversand equipment for searches both underwater and from the air. It was not a casual scenario. On Wednesday night, after the shootings, he was located in the town of Lisbon, next to one of the shuttles to the river, the white SUV that he had used Card, which is registered in his name two jet skis and a motor boat.
Geography and adverse elements
The search also continued on land, where the assumption is made complexity of the operation, complicated by geography of that area of southern Maine, populated by hills and dense forestssome of which haven’t been set foot in years and where someone like Card, hunting enthusiast and lover of nature activities, has a better chance of hiding and surviving. He SaturdaybesidesDeer hunting season openswhich can complicate operations for authorities.
These admit the pressure. “Every minute that passes we are more and more worried Because what is going to happen next?”, acknowledged in the morning press conference the commissioner of public safety of Maine, Michael Sauschuck, who also assured that they work tirelessly “so that the community regains a sense of security.”
At that same press conference, however, calls for patience and statement after statement, including a promise to appear daily at the same time to provide updates as the search continues, conveyed the idea that can be prolonged.
Who is Robert Card, the author of the massacre in Maine
Hay background that explain that perspective. Historical is the case of Eric Rudolph, what managed to happen five years hidden in the mountains of North Carolina after setting off bombs in Georgia and Alabama, including at the Atlanta Olympic Games. Further recentlyand despite the technology advances in night vision devices, temperature detectors or droneslast month authorities in Pennsylvania took 13 days in capturing Danelo Cavalcante, a dangerous prisoner who had escaped and taken refuge in a rural area on the outskirts of Philadelphia.
A note
They will not be able to follow Card through his mobile phone because the tphone card It is one of the objects that the authorities have found at one of the family’s Bowdoin homes they searched Thursday.
The authorities, who in the abandoned vehicle in Lisbon They found an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle like the one he used in the shootings, which is being analyzed, they also have in their possession a note that Card left. And although at the press conference they did not want to give more information or details, leaks from anonymous sources to various media assure that it is a kind of suicide note.
Maine, one of the most lax states in gun control in the United States
According to AP sources, it was a message that was addressed to his son. CNN’s police source, meanwhile, explained that he implied that he did not expect to surviveas it gave other people information and instructions on where to find certain things and get rid of them.
What the note did not include, at least according to those initial reports, was information that would help clarify the reasons for the massacre, of which all deathly victims have already been identified according to the Maine coroner’s office. Among them are Aaron Young, a 14-year-old teenager who died along with his father, Bill Young, at the bowling alley. and four members of the local deaf community, who had gathered at the bar for a cornhole tournament, a shooting game.
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