Robert Card manhunt: Divers searching river, cops with guns drawn surround residence
Maine authorities are sifting through over 500 tips as the manhunt for Lewiston shooting suspect Robert Card i𒀰ntensifies – serching in rivers, from the air and on the ground.
Shortly after noon, sheriffs with guns drawn and US Marshals raced up a street near the home of Robert Card’s sister in Monmouth ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚCounty, Maine.
A ꦺchild and an older woman were brought out of the property, but neither the woman nor child were taken into police custody.
Meanwhile, divers and sonar have b𓄧een deployed in the river near where the culprit’s car w꧟as found.
“We’re not saying the suspect is in the water. [But] you’re gonna see a lot of activity [at the Androscoggin River],” Public ൩Safety Commissioner Mike Sau🦄schuck explained at a press conference in Lewiston City hall Friday morning.
An aerial patrol including planes and drones have been ⛄deployed in Androscoggin county near the Lisbon boat launch where Card’s Subaru was found late Wednesday, Sauschuck said.
Armed o🔯fficers were alsoꦦ spotted searching a farm in Lisbon, Maine, Friday morning – not far from the boat launch.
“We just heard from a man who claims to work on the property who says he heard gunshots,” of the search.
The thick fores𝓰ts around the rural area are being monitored from above, in case there is any sign of army-trained Card, who sources have told The Post would be capable of hiding out in the woods for days if he wa෴nted.
Sauschuck also admitted police wꦓere “st♒ill days away” from fully processing the crime scenes at both Just-In-Time Recreation bowling alley and Schemengees Bar and Grille where the shootings took place.
Eighteen people we🏅re killed – only eight of whom have been officially identified – and 13 more injured between the two locations, and officers are working to catalog each shot fired, he explai🎉ned.
Law enforcement is also scrambling to follow up on “530-plus tips and 𓄧leads” that have come in since the shooting, Sauschuck added.
Residents of Lewiston and nearby Auburn, Bowdoin, and Lisbon remain stilꦓl under shelter in place orders nearly 48 hours after the suspect opened fir🥀e, the commissioner clarified.
Sauschuck vowed that the restricཧtions would be an “ongoing conversation.”
“Does it make sense ♋that those orders are still in place? They have not been changed in any way,” Sauschuck said.
“We realize that💯 we want to keep our community safe … but they have some negative impacts on f𒅌amilies that go to school and businesses and all of those things.”
While Card remains elusive, officials said that the Army Reservist’s loved ones are cooperating with thඣe investigation – though they declined to provide details about what the family told them so far.
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“We are abꦉsolutely heartbroken,” Card’s sister-in-law Katie O’Neill told The Post.
“This is beyond belief. We are doing all we can with law enforcement, giving all information we can. Ouಌr hearts and prayers are constantly with these poor families, we will noꦏt be making further statements at this time.”
Shortly after the Friday press conference, authorities in varying degrees of 𓆏tactical gear were spotted in a wooded area of Monmouth and on a farm in Lisbon, not far from the boat lau♉nch.
“We just heard from a man who claims to work on the property who says he heard gunshots,” HearstTV’s Amy Lu wrote on X of the latter search.
