Maine State Police and a county sheriff beforehand reported there had been an lively shooter on Wednesday night time however didn’t present particulars.
“There may be an lively shooter in Lewiston,” Maine state police stated on the social media platform X.”We ask individuals to shelter in place. Please keep inside your house with the doorways locked. Legislation enforcement is at the moment investigating at a number of areas.”
The Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Workplace posted two images of a suspect on Fb, saying he was at giant.
The county sheriff requested for the general public’s assist in figuring out the pictured suspect, a bearded man in a long-sleeved shirt and denims holding a rifle within the firing place.
The Central Maine Medical Heart in Lewiston issued an announcement saying it was “reacting to a mass casualty, mass shooter occasion” and coordinating with space hospitals to take sufferers.
Lewiston is a part of Androscoggin County and about 35 miles (56 km) north of Maine’s largest metropolis, Portland.
The Solar Journal, citing a Lewiston police spokesperson, reported shootings at three separate companies: Sparetime Recreation, Schemengees Bar & Grille Restaurant, and a Walmart distribution middle.
President Joe Biden has been briefed and can proceed to obtain updates, a US official stated in Washington.
Maine Governor Janet Mills stated in an announcement she had been briefed on the state of affairs.
The bloodbath is the deadliest mass capturing in the US since a minimum of Could 2022, when a gunman opened fireplace at an elementary faculty in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 youngsters and two academics, based on the Gun Violence Archive.
The variety of US shootings during which 4 or extra individuals have been shot has surged for the reason that Covid-19 pandemic started in 2020, with 647 occurring in 2022 and 679 projected to happen in 2023, primarily based on developments as of July, based on information from the archive.
The deadliest US mass capturing on document is the bloodbath of 58 individuals by a gunman firing on a Las Vegas nation music pageant from a high-rise resort perch in 2017.
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