Carnage occurred early this morning in the city of Lewiston, Maine. An American gunman on a rampage attacked civilians with a semi-automatic weapon in three different parts of the city, killing at least 22 people and injuring 60 others.
For his arrest, the police launched a manhunt, warning residents to lock themselves in their homes.
The images are tragic with the citizens of Lewiston running in the dark to hide from the gunman who is still roaming around spreading death and terror. One stops and raises his hands. Officers check him to make sure he is not the gunman, who is still on the run. Ambulances are running on the streets.
Meanwhile, a security camera of a city entertainment center, specifically a bowling alley, recorded a white man in his 40s holding a semi-automatic rifle. Police who arrived at the scene shortly after 7pm identified the gunman as Robert Card, a weapons instructor who served in the US Army.
Card had been hospitalized over the summer in a psychiatric clinic because he was hearing voices. His photo was released so anyone who saw him could alert the authorities as there were reports of more victims at a restaurant in the city.
According to Mike Shoschak, commander of Public Safety in Maine, the assailant is armed and dangerous. If anyone sees him they should not approach him or contact him in any way.
All businesses in the city were closed and citizens were told to remain locked in their homes online.
The attacker's car was located 12 kilometers from Lewiston in the city of Lisbon, where traffic has also been closed and patrols by hundreds of armed police with powerful headlights are combing the area.
The Lewiston hospital where the dead and injured of the massacre have been taken is also under strong police guard.
Of at least 500 similar bloody incidents in recent years in the United States, the massacre in Lewiston in Maine's second most populous city is the deadliest.
Source: ethnos.gr