LEWISTON: Thousands of anxious small-town Maine residents began a second day under lockdown on Friday as police waging a sprawling manhunt struggled to find a US Army reservist, accused of killing 18 people in America’s deadliest mass shooting this year.

Dozens of law enforcement agents surrounded the family home of the suspect, Robert Card, 40, but by mid-evening agents left the property in Bowdoin, near Lewiston, Maine, to hunt for him elsewhere.

A wide area around Lewiston remained locked down, more than 24 hours after Card allegedly went on a rampage in which 18 people were killed and 13 others wounded.

People in Lewiston were on edge, buzzing with talk of Card and the massacre.

Published in Dawn, October 28th, 2023