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Robert R. Card II was found dead Friday after a three-day manhunt, U.S. Sen. Angus King told the Bangor Daily News.
Card, 40, was the suspect in the mass shootings in Lewiston that left 18 people dead and 13 injured at Schemengees Bar and Grille and Just-In-Time Recreation on Wednesday.
King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, said Card was found by a Lisbon recycling center where he used to work. He was shot in the same clothes he had on, King said, adding that this information was confirmed by Gov. Janet Mills.
Capital Avenue, the road approaching Lisbon’s transfer station, was blocked by police at 9:15 p.m. The facility is about a mile from the boat launch where Card’s car was found Wednesday night.
Just before King confirmed Card’s death, the Maine State Police called a news conference at 10 p.m. at Lewiston City Hall. Shannon Moss, a spokesperson for the agency, said police would not be issuing updates until then.
During the days Card was on the run, police searched across Androscoggin and Sagadahoc counties, from Lewiston to a Lisbon boat launch to Durham and his family home in Bowdoin. Divers also searched the Androscoggin River and hundreds of acres of family-owned property.
Residents had to shelter-in-place for nearly 48 hours after the shootings as the manhunt for Card continued. Police lifted the order late Friday afternoon.
Around 60 percent of mass shooters don’t make it out of the shooting alive, James Alan Fox previously told the Bangor Daily News. He is a sociology professor at Northeastern who helped compile a database of mass killings in the U.S. from 2006 to today.
It usually takes less than 24 hours to catch shooters who escape the scene, Fox said previously.
The victims were 14 to 76 years old, playing cornhole and bowling when they were killed. They left behind children, spouses, siblings and friends.
BDN reporters Sawyer Loftus and Troy R. Bennett contributed reporting.
