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Maine mass shooting live updates: Suspect found dead, sources say

Until Friday, police had no reported sightings of the suspect, Robert Card, since the shootings at Schemengees Bar and Grille and Just-In-Time Recreation

Law enforcement personal block a road as they search a house on Meadow Road in Bowdoin, Maine, Thursday, October 26, 2023.
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UPDATE (Friday, Oct. 27): The man suspected in the Lewiston, Maine, mass shootings has been found dead, authorities confirmed. More details here.


What to Know

  • Sources say 40-year-old Robert Card, the man accused of being the gunman who left 18 people dead in a mass killing at a restaurant and a bowling alley in Lewiston, was found dead on Friday night.
  • Residents in Lewiston and nearby towns were urged for days to stay home and remain locked down as the search continued.
  • Officials say there is no longer a threat to the general public.

The man suspected in Wednesday's massacre that killed 18 people in Lewiston, Maine, has been found dead, according to sources.

Robert Card had been the subject of a dayslong manhunt that followed the mass shootings at the Just-In-Time Recreation bowling alley and Schemengees Bar and Grille.

Multiple sources told the NBC10 Boston Investigators there was no longer a threat, and four senior law enforcement officials told NBC News that Card had been found dead.

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