Home in connection to lewiston shooter robert card. Similar Police Activity in maine throughout the day. We will keep monitoring the situation and bring you any updates as we have them. As of right now, the suspect is still considered on the loose and not in police custody. The urgent wide ranging manhunt continues for the suspect in a Mass Shooting that left 18 people dead in lewiston, maine. With the 565th Mass Shooting of the year in the United States, the deadliest so far, according to the nonprofit gun violence archive. State police say 40yearold card is wanted on eight counts of murder based on the numbers of victims, and officials have been able to identify the shooting unfolded last night across two locations in the western, the second largest city in maine. Shortly before seven pm, a man walking into a Bowling Alley call just in time recreation, opened fire. Several minutes later officials received 911 calls about shots fired and a nearby restaurant, schemengees bar and grill within an hour Police Released voters of the shooter who would be later identified as robert kind of bowdoin, maine. They say he was using an Assault Style sniper rifle that he purchased legally this year. Witnesses in the bowling all you described a busy scene wednesday night, filled with dozens of bowlers, including children, suddenly stunned by the noise of gunshots shots. One man explained how he did in he hid inside the Bowling Machinery to escape the carnage. We were inside and i was bowling and Out Of Nowhere he just came in. I heard a loud pop. I had my back to the door. As soon as i turned i saw it was not a balloon, he was holding weapon, i just lifted down the lane. To where the pins were and climbed into the machine, and was on top of the machines for about ten minutes till the cops got there. I dont know how to explain it. Four miles away at the bar, in a restaurant, a manager named joey walker was among the victims. Police told his father leroy joey trying to protect others before he was killed. Joey walker was shot to death. Shot to death and then he went in to tell her that he died as a hero because he picked up a Butcher Knife from somewhere. He has all that stuff nearby anyway. And he tried to go at the gunman to stop him from shooting anybody. The gunman shot him twice. Does it change your pain at all . Knowing that . It made it worse. Yeah. It made it worse. Police have not yet released the names of or any information about the 18 victims. We are learning more about the gunman, who was a Longtime Army reservist and a trained firearms instructor. The army confirmed that card is based in maine and has not served any combat deployments. This Summer Wildcards Unit was training near west point to new york, his commanders became concerned about his erratic vior, saying he was Hearing Voices and making threats to the base. He spent two weeks undergoing Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment before being released. Cards family also said that he had been experiencing a, quote, acute Mental Health episode for months, and manic believe the people were saying negative things about him. His sisterinlaw tells nbc news that the family told police in military forces with a group concerned. No request beginning whether card should have been subject to mains yellow flag law which allows police to remove asked to remove weapons from the home of someone deemed dangerous. Hundreds of Law Personnel are now searching for that man, robert card, believe him to be armed and dangerous, as of now. Last night Police Located that car you see there on your screen. Thats the white subaru. It was in a boat launch in nearby lisbon. They also found a gun inside that car and are looking into whether it is the same weapon used in the shootings. Earlier today officials found a note while searching the shooters home. A neighbor described as basically a compound. Police say they are working to determine the notes meaning and the role in their investigation. The man hunt continues in, continues across the region. The coast guard cnn air assets today, National Agencies like the fbi providing support. For residents the terror the worst Mass Shooting in the States History drags on. As two counties are now being ordered to shelter in place. This is an indias consultant. Jonathan d. C. , chief justice contributor has been reporting this out almost 24 hours tree straight. Let me start with you, jonathan, it what we have on the latest. Lets just, police fbi, atf officials outside a residence of the suspects and they have him surrounded and they are checking it out and we are told this a precautionary stamp, that the area was search previously and they go in loud and with light flashing, announce themselves, as a precaution. We are told that they are doing checks and rechecks because, as you know, this massive search across Southern Maine continues for this shooter, and they are very concerned that he remains out there and they have very little right now as to where he is. So there are checks and rechecks of residents and they consider by the ground from the air from the woody areas and right now theyre outside his home again, doing a check, as it was explained to us, as a precaution. If folks had been watching, our coverage in the previous hour there were police surrounding him they were saying come out with your hands up. It sounded like maybe he was in there. Our understanding is, that is standard procedure, and the first time theyre searching the home. In fact thats where the note was found, if im not mistaken. And that was found inside the home in an earlier search, and they decided to go back again. This is a compound. Its a large property. As shed perhaps, some underground structure. So theyre going back, doing their extra track, as a precaution, as of now there is nothing to indicate he is inside that building, inside that structure. I was so struck by this number today, the number of homicides in the state of maine in 2022 was 29 across the state for the whole year of 2022. Last night of course 18, homicides in lewiston, maine. What does it seem like in that city . Its shocking. Its just a devastating impact that has had on this community. Think about those numbers, chris. 29 homicides last year in the entire 12 months. And then in one night, in maybe half an hour, 18 People Killed in this community. Seven of them just down the street at a Bowling Alley at a youth night, and for mines in that direction, another eight People Killed. And so it has left this community devastated. And think about this. This is a state of 1. 3 million people. 29 murders a year, 18 and one night. The representative, the congressional representative from this group, jerry, golden was part of a News Conference this afternoon. He said something rather remarkable. He said, numbers like that, he said, gave a false sense of confidence that our community was above this and that we could be in full control. He also pointed out that he had opposed banning the kind of weapons that was used in the mass assault here. This afternoon he apologized to the people of his district. Take a listen. To the people who are listening of the district, to the families who lost loved ones, into those who have been harmed, i ask for forgiveness, and support, as i see to contain these perilous shootings. He said that he is going to do everything you can in the amount of time that he remains a congressman to work with everyone and whoever he might work with in order to make a change. I spoke with a doctor just a short distance from here. He was born and raised here. And his wife, he said, they had looked with grief at this kind of tragedies that happened in other communities. But they would look at one another and say, it cant happen here. And then he said to me, it happened here. Its the same kind of thing that congressman golden and saying to himself. There is no community were finding out that hes immune to this kind of tragedy. And sadly, this community is feeling it in a very powerful way tonight. Can only imagine. We dont have confirmed names of the victims, as of yet, holding an interview with one, confirmed there are 18. There are also others who are injured, who are being treated. The man hunt continues. And well go back to you, jonathan. Again, this is a sort of hindsight 2020, but this really does seem one of those situations where there was a series of warning signs, documented and clear in the run up to this. His family complained about his Mental Illness. He was taken away by the new York State Police during a Training Exercise because of the threats he was making during that training. So as for the gun itself, we are told it was purchased legally. Prior to his twoweek stay in a mental institution, but perhaps his stay there was voluntary, that he went in and based on that that was not a reason to perhaps take his arms away. A lot of questions that need to be looked into as to why and how he got those weapons and was able to keep those weapons. But again, that long history of Mental Illness seems to be a factor as to why he picked those two locations, looking into whether there was any romantic relationship when sideways, or why he decided to target those places. But we just dont have those answers yet. We do have a little bit of news here. This is a social media post from the Main State Police. Essentially confirming, jonathan, what you just said earlier in your reporting. They said the. Following Law Enforcement officials are currently on metal road in bowdoin to execute several Burr Search Warrants the announcements are standard announcements but executing the safety of all involved. Its unknown if robert card is in any of the homes, but officers are using Due Diligence to apprehend him. Rehema ellis, let me go back to you. We have orders from the state police to be on the lookout and shelter in place and in the places closest to where the shooting took so a lot of the situations, the shooter is found relatively quickly, they are either apprehended or found dead at the scene, and were now going on 24 hours and people must be terribly on edge. Absolutely. You can feel it in this community. There are clouds overhead here during the day, but there is a cloud, not just in physical sense but in a motional sense, over this community. Im telling, you when i drove in here this morning, and you see a sign that says shelter in place, thats a stunning sign in america. You dont see that when you walk into a city in america. This is the second largest city in the state of maine, and youve got some 30,000, 39,000, 40,000 people here. Folks know one another. Now theyre being told to shelter in place. Folks have left their doors open. Folks have left their car keys in their car. Now theyre being told to shelter in place. Schools were shut down, restaurants were shut down, you couldnt get a mcdonalds hamburger in this town today. Everybody was sheltering in place for their safety. Chris . Rehema ellis, who is in lewiston maine, and Jonathan Jonathan dienst has been here working the phones with, me were you nonstop. Congresswoman is a democrat of maine. Until tonight she was the only member of the main delegation in congress who supported Assault Weapons ban. She joins me now. Congresswoman, first let me ask, i know Congressman Goldman Recused represents the state, but maine is not a huge state. I imagine people throughout the state feeling the impact of this as the manhunt continues. Where do you see things from your perspective . Absolutely. It has been a terrifying day, and thank you so much for your coverage. Really wonderful comprehensive coverage of the challenges that we are facing right now, in hopes of people have the perhaps were getting closer to finding this criminal. I represent and [inaudible] a lot of people come this unlikely people felt so safe. Weapon could do in time has been to know that that persons is even you are just referencing jared golden Congressional District today, and i have to say, one of the things that happens relatively routine tragic some kind of zip peoples responsibility for this barrier to bans the Community Sortie the time that i have left sortie a weapon those assigned a kill. People we have a lot of guns in our state. If youre going hunting for a deer, youre not taking the military style Assault Weapon with multiple ammunition with it. Congresswoman shelley i really appreciate you taking that, making a little time for us today on a very, very rough day for your state. Were all thinking about. You think of a much. Thank you so much for time. Nbc news correspondent sam brock is at that house that is house that is being searched, associate with robert card in bowdoin, maine. Sam, we got very very dark images of whats going on there. Can you tell us what you can see . Chris, good evening. Right now, we do not see a lot. Weve been given specific instructions from police not to have our lights on, this all started about 30, 45 minutes ago. And you can actually hear the Helicopter Buzzing above. This sequence, i should say, the senior looking at over my shoulder right now from when you can tell is nothing like what it was 15 or 20 minutes ago. There was a sea of police cars, these bullets, all of us down this hill. Where im standing right now, this is all property of robert card, which is to say, this is a family that owns hundreds and hundreds of acreage. Robert card senior lives in that hard up on the hill. I was talking to a neighbor, earlier today, he kept explaining to me, people were getting confused about where robert card junior actually lives. It is family and child home. Thats up there. That may spawn questions as to why theyd be trying to get police into that home. Certainly, a lot of conjecture, the reports out they might have him cornered or a member of his family Main State Police just issued a post on x to say this is perfunctory in some case. They were executing a search warrant. It was the Due Diligence that were practicing, will we have our folks on the ground, chris, police here get on to the megaphone and say, come out with your hands up. We will not harm you. That is also according to the post, practice, of course, anyone who hears that would think theres some sort of confrontation underway. Which might be what led to the misconception about what was going on. I will say, there is a period of time it was unclear if he was or was not in the house. Now, as you look at the much lower presence, i would say, of Law Enforcement, not just aerial, a couple of drones up as well. But on the ground to. I saw dozens of police cars walking up here, many of those have now gone. They have not given permission yet to put our lights back, on to advance any further than this. You probably can, see a couple Police Officers over my shoulder there, making sure the media doesnt move any further up this hill. That said, it does appear that theres someone here accused of 18 murders, they really thought they had him cornered and house right now. You would see a massive presence still, that is dissipated. That official announcement from Law Enforcement, i felt very confident in saying, right now, this is part of a normal process of executing a search warrant. And not cornering a suspect. Sam, thank you very much for that dispatch, 25 hours since the initial shootings started in lewiston, maine. The second largest city in that state. We do not have an apprehension of the men believed to be responsible, robert card, remained at large. Brandi zadrozny, is the covers extremism, the internet, has been doing some reporting on cards online footprint. Dr. Jonathan metzl a professor of sociology in psychiatry at vanderbilt university. Leading expert on Americas Epidemic of gun violence. Hes the author of the forthcoming book, what weve become. Living in dying in a country of arms, they join me now. Good to have you both here. Brandi, maybe you can talk a little bit about what you and your colleagues are reporting out today about robert cards Online Presence . Yeah, he had a small Online Presence, we found a Facebook Page that seemed to belong to him. There was a twitter account thats reportedly belonged to him. If that account is true, we havent verified ourself yet. It seems likely that he might have liked some right wing influencers, charlie kirk, don junior, that sort of thing. The thing is, i think were so used to, because of all the things weve experienced in the past, in terms of Mass Shootings, finding a manifesto. Looking for a political motivation. Here, it seems more reminiscent of the 2017 spring shooting, which is where a ex military person, who should never have had a gun, had a gun, and used it as he did. I want to emphasize that point, its an important one. We saw in buffalo, a way to promise a shooting, in pittsburgh at the synagogue, and el paso at a walmart. These were all motivated by hatred, they left writings a testing to that. As far as, now it does not appear to be the case here. What it does appear to be the case though, hindsight is 2020, but