Police respond to an active shooter situation in Lewiston, Maine, late on Wednesday.
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Maine Gov. Janet Mills said at a Thursday press conference that 18 people were killed and another 13 injured in the shootings last night in Lewiston, Maine.
She said she and President Biden have ordered all U.S. and Maine flags lowered to half-staff immediately for five days in their honor.
The cities of Lewiston, Lisbon and Bowdoin remain under a shelter-in-place order as law enforcement continue searching for Robert Card, whom Mills named as a person of interest and described as armed and dangerous. People should not approach him under any circumstances, she added.
She said all of Maine’s 1.3 million residents are sharing in the sorrow of people who lost loved ones.
“This is a dark day for Maine,” she said. “I know it’s hard for us to think about healing when our hearts our broken. But I want every person in Maine to know that we will heal together. We are strong, we are resilient, we are a very caring people.”
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