Bowling alley. Aiming his weapon. Witnesses say he opened fire with a Youth Bowling League under way. 12 minutes later, the 911 calls from a second location. Tonight, police now searching on the ground and in the air. Where authorities have found his car. The note found in his home. The retired nurse who was shot, and the doctor she used to work with who shen operated on her. What she told us from her hospital bed today. And the husband who was shot and killed, the family that waited 14 hours for the horrible news. My interview tonight with his heartbroken father. What authorities told him his son tried to do. And the images just coming in tonight, authorities on the scene right now of a home in bowden, maine, associated with the sop Whit Dojohnson with late reporting. Also tonight here, the warning sign. The alleged suspect spending two weeks at a Mental Health facilities, after sources say he reported Hearing Voices and threatened to shoot up a National Guard facility. Pierre thomas on that part of the story. The names and the faces of the victims now emerging here. The youth bowling coach, a loving husband and grandfather who tried to protect the children. The mother working parttime at the Bowling Alley. The cousin who witnessed it all. Linsey davis with their stories. The other major news tonight, israels war with hamas. And tonight, israeli tanks entering gaza what does this signal . Matt gutman on the ground tonight. The alarming images this evening. The u. S. Military accusing a chinese fighter jet of nearly colliding with an american b52 bombin i bomber. Tonight, tin truder inside the home of president ial candidate robert f. Kennedy jr. End kennedy and his wife both home at the time. And the storming were tracking tonight. Heavy snow, nearly two feet in some areas. Several states now under Winter Weather alerts tonight. Announcer from abc news, this is a Special Edition of World News Tonight with David Muir Reporting tonight from lewiston, maine. Good evening tonight from lewiston, maine, the scene of a Horrific Mass Shooting here. At least 18 dead and at least 13 injured, several of them critically. And tonight, as we come on the air here, there is an urgent manhunt for the suspected gunman. Authorities say a u. S. Army reservist. The shootings at two different locations. One of them at a Bowling Alley right here behind us. Families, children playing in a Youth Bowling League. 12 minutes later, a bar and grill here. And all day today, as we were driving through these communities, reporting on this awful story, the alerts going out on our phones, we all got them. Everyone getting these signals here that the shelter in place order has been extended across two counties. The gunman considered armed and dangerous. Tonight, with nightfall, the eerie quiet here in so many communities. People inside their homes, their doors locked. The horror beginning just before 7 00 p. M. Last night. The calls to 911 reporting an active shooter at the Bowling Alley here. That Youth Bowling League well under way. People seen running for their lives in the dark. A short time later, Those Calls Of A Second Shooting at a restaurant nearby. Multiple Law Enforcement agencies and emergency medical personnel dispatched to both scenes. It was not long before authorities released these chilling surveillance images from the Bowling Alley. The gunman actually seen entering, with what appears to be an arstyle weapon. Police warning the public to be on alert. Tonight, the suspect, robert card, facing multiple counts of murder. An Army Reservist who we have learned went to a Mental Health facility for two weeks just this past july. Tonight, his car has been found in lisbon, maine, about eight miles from where were standing here tonight. The doors still open, the lights still on. And the note they have found at his home. The manhunt at this hour, now involving more than 350 Law Enforcement personnel from multiple states and from federal agencies, including the fbi. And the reminders are everywhere. We saw the road blocks here today, signaling the continuing danger. Tonight here, the stories from inside the Bowling Alley, and from inside that restaurant and bar. And the family that waited 14 hours for the news. What they told me about their loved one, what their son tried to do. Tonight, the horror that began here just before 7 00 last night. Tonight, these small new england communities, in and around lewiston, maine, north of portland, gripped in fear. Nearly 24 hours later, families are still being told tonight by authorities to stay home and to lock their doors. All day today, we could see main streets here, the back roads eerily quiet. Public safety alerts going off as we were driving in our car reports here. Drivers being told the shelter in place order has been extended across two counties here. Tonight, the urgent manhunt for the suspect who opened fire during the dinner hour last night at two different locations, where neighbors, where families and their children, were gathered. Tonight, the death toll at least 18 People Killed. 13 injured, several critically. We need you to respond to the town of lewiston. Reporter the first 911 calls coming in at 6 56 p. M. Last night. Sparetime recreation for an active shooter incident, multiple people down. Reporter parents shielding their children, some running for their lives. It was youth night at the local Bowling Alley, just in time recreation its called, also known here as the sparetime Bowling Alley. Seven People Killed inside. Authorities say six males and one female. We were inside. Just a normal night of bowling, out of nowhere, he just came in, and there was a loud pop. Thought it was a balloon. I had my back turned to the door. As soon as i turned and saw that it was not a balloon, he was holding a weapon, i just booked it down the lane and i slid, basically, into where the pins are and climbed up into the machine and was on top of the machines for about ten minutes until the cops got there. Reporter Meghan Hutchinson and her 10yearold daughter, zoe, were inside. They raced to barricade themselves in a storage room. When i turned around, i saw the shooter right behind me had just come in the door. Between the lanes, theres some swinging doors, like where they keep all the mechanical stuff out back. So, we kind of all just ran that way. David zoes leg grazed by a bullet. I never thought id grow up and get a bullet in my leg. And its just like like why . Like, why do people do this . I was more worried about, like, am ingoing to live, am i going to make it out of here . Like, whats going to happen . Are the cops going to come . David and then, 12 minutes after those first 911 calls from the Bowling Alley, 7 08 p. M. , the calls to 911, gunfire at a second location. At about 7 08 p. M. , the Communications Center received multiple 911 calls about an active shooter inside of a schemengees billiards. Reporter this time, schemengees bar and grill, just four minutes from that Bowling Alley. Eight People Killed inside. One person killed outside. Less than an hour later, 8 06 p. M. , the Sheriffs Office releasing these chilling images of the suspect. Tonight, identified as 40yearold robert card. Sources say card is a u. S. Army reservist. A local Law Enforcement bulletin describing him as a certified firearms instructor. Authorities concerned the suspects tactical knowledge making him a great threat. The images show him entering that Bowling Alley. His ak47style rifle raised to his shoulder. Aiming his weapon. Nearly two hours later, 9 56 p. M. , the suspects white subaru found with the doors open at a boat landing in lisbon, maine, about eight miles from those two lewiston locations. He should be considered armed and dangerous. Based on our investigation, we believe this is someone that should not be approached. David in the overnight hours, and all day today, the allout search for the suspect. The signs in so many communities here, shelter in place. Helicopters searching overhead. Aircraft with infrared cameras. The suspect now wanted tonight on multiple counts of murder. Currently, there is an Arrest Warrant for eight counts of murder for mr. Card. And the reason its eight counts is because ten people have not yet been identified. As those people are identified, the counts will probably go■ to the total of 18. David the medical teams racing into action. Ambulances rushing to the scene, loading victims. Hospitals inundated. 100 offduty medical staff racing in to help. Outside, police guarding the entrance. We had our first patient arrive at 7 24 p. M. And over the next 45 minutes, we received a total of 14 patients. Eight of those patients were admitted to our hospital, three of those patients are deceased. David from her hospital bed today, Jennifer Zanca telling us she was having dinner with friends at Schmengees Bar and grille when the shooting began at that second location. When i turned around, and we all turned around and realized what was happening, we dropped to the ground. And thats when i think i was shot in the arm. David shed been shot. But this retired nurse still escaped through the back door. So, i kept my hand on my arm like a tourniquet, because it was bleeding pretty heavily. And i went to hide behind the dumpster there was another gentleman there. But i knew i needed to get help. David rushed to the hospital, a doctor she used to work with now operating on her. I was one of the lucky ones. My if the bullet had hit in either direction, i definitely would not have survived. David she knows she survived, while 18 others did not. This was the post on facebook just today. A wife asking about her husband who worked at that bar and grille. Tracy walker writing about her husband joseph. Please pray. I havent heard anything about my husband joseph walker. He was at schemengees. Tonight, after waiting 14 hours for word, the family learned he was killed. His father, leroy walker, describes the emptiness. Your whole body, everything goes out of you. Your heart goes flipflop, and it feels like theres a vice in you. Your head cant take it, and you just feel like youre going to blow up, thats what you feel like, ior blow out. Im not sure which way. But you got no legs. Your mind cant youre thinking, but youre not knowing what youre thinking. Youre not you dont even know where youre going. Yeah, its its an empty its just hard. I dont know how some people, ive listened to some people try to explain when something happens in these shootouts and stuff i dont know how they do it. I cant explain it, to tell you the truth. I cant. I can tell you though. Its empty, its empty. I dont know what tomorrows going to bring. David im sorry. Well just have to wait and see, i guess david leroy is a local councilman here, says state police told the family his son was a hero, who grabbed a knife behind the bar, to try to stop the gunman, but he was killed. Leroys family showed us the article when his son was a hero back in high school, helping to stop a thief at a local jewelry store. His father not surprised his son tried to help again. He says hell miss the visits from his son after he would finish work. And those visits at night when he got offshift, youll miss those most. Yeah, thatll kill m yeah, thatll kill me. Yeah, the only other thing is the other poor people that are out here doing the same thing as im doing right now. Having no place to really go. Or feel like you got a place to go. Just emptiness. Its i feel so sorry for them, too. Most of them are my friends, because they were joes friends, my friends. We played pool, we played darts. We did all of that together. And i know some of them i know one or two of them that was shot, in the hospital, trying to, you know, heal from it. One is dead. Shot him outside of the place. Its crazy. Just crazy. David you know, it says a lot about this community that that heartbroken father even with his own pain tonight is thinking about all of the other families here, feeling that same emptiness, that same pain. As ive mentioned here, this manhunt under way at this hour. Just before we came on tonight, officers actually surrounding a home they say has been linked to the suspect. Explosions could be heard for a time. Multiple locations have now been checked, with hundreds of officers spreading out across the region. Families tonight told to stay inside. And abcs whit johnson with late reporting on this most recent location in this growing manhunt tonight. Reporter tonight, with that massive manhunt under way for robert card, loud bangs could be heard as officers searched a home associated with the suspect. This, as more than 350 Law Enforcement personnel from multiple states, including the fbi, atf, and u. S. Marshals, desperately search for a suspected killer the fbi using infrared equipped aircraft to search for Heat Signatures in the deep maine woods. Multiple cities shutting all public buildings. Schools, and many businesses. Overnight, just miles from the murders, police swarming the town of lisbon. Finding that white subaru and a firearm inside. The suspects car was found parked here at this boat launch. Authorities say that he owned a boat, and theyre now looking into whether he may have made his escape on the water. The coast guard now involved in the search. Lisbons police chief fielding a flood of possible tips. Weve had everything from people calling about, you know, noises in the basement, noises in the woods. Suspicious people, gunshots all night long since the incident in lewiston. Reporter and david, were told those loud explosions heard at this home up the road here were part of an fbi search, and were likely flashbang grenades. Its not clear what, if anything, they found inside. David . David all right, whit johnson here in lewiston, maine, here with us tonight. Whit, thank you. We are also learning more about the suspect tonight and the time he spent at that Mental Health facility, for two weeks just this past summer. Tonight, the warning signs. So, lets get right to pierre thomas. Pierre, what more have you learned about the suspect and his time at that Mental Health facility . Reporter david, this past summer, military officials at camp smith Training Site just north of New York City became increasingly concerned about the Mental Health of Army Reservist robert card. In july, card was acting, quote, erratically. A source telling abc news he was threatening other soldiers with violence. A Law Enforcement bulletin described to abc news portrays card as Hearing Voices, and talking about going to, quote, shoot up a Military Site in maine. Card was ordered to go to the Keller Army Community hospital near west point, where he stayed for two weeks. Tonight, the critical question how did someone in such a Mental Health crisis maintain access to a high capacity rifle . David . David a real question that has to be answered in these weeks ahead. Pierre thomas, thank you. And sadly, at every one of these Mass Shootings, we must tell the stories of the lives lost. The families dealing with immeasurable pain. Tonight, the names and faces of the victims now emerging. The youth bowling coach, a loving husband and grandfather who tried to protect the children. The mother working parttime at the Bowling Alley, and her cousin who witnessed it all. Abcs linsey davis here in maine tonight. Reporter tonight, were learning about some of the lives lost in the rampage from their heartbroken families. 76yearold bob violet, a youth bowling coach, who reportedly died trying to protect the children in his care. Bobs family described him to The Port Lard Press Herald as a doting husband who took great care to make sure his wife never missed her medication. And they say bob cherished the time spent with his grandchildren. 53yearold mother Tricia Asland was the only woman killed at the Bowling Alley where she worked. When the gunfire erupted, she ran to all 911 and was shot. Her cousin tammy was at the Bowling Alley, too, with her daughter. I saw someone get shot and i saw Blood Splatter everywhere. And they just fell off their chair. Reporter the entire family racked with grief. Tell us about your cousin. She was the most fun person, she was always happy go lucky, and i just feel devastated for the loss for her family. David i know you also talked with her brother, also, grievin tonight. And what did the brother tell you . Reporter the brother was simply saying that, his sister was the rock of their family, and david, of course, were also learning new information about the victims. Among them, two men who were part of a group of deaf adults who were out at that restaurant, ju