At least 16 killed in Maine mass shootings as police hunt for gunman

No less than 16 individuals were killed in mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine, Wednesday night, State Police said. Numerous sources said handfuls were harmed, yet it was indistinct the number of had been shot.

An individual of interest was at large, State Police said.

Maine Public Wellbeing Chief Mike Sauschuck told a news gathering that the shootings started without further ado before 7 p.m. State Police expressed soon after 8 p.m. that they were exploring "numerous areas."

Specialists are endeavoring to find 40-year-old Robert R. Card as an individual of interest in the shootings, the Lewiston Police Division said in a Facebook post late Wednesday night. He is viewed as outfitted and hazardous.

As per a Maine policing seen by CBS News, Card is a prepared guns educator accepted to be in the Military save positioned out of Saco, Maine.

He as of late revealed psychological wellness issues, including hearing voices, as indicated by the announcement. He had likewise taken steps to shoot up the Public Gatekeeper base in Saco, Maine, the notice said, and he was accounted for to have been focused on an emotional well-being office for a long time this late spring.

Specialists shared pictures of the individual of interest and requested that individuals get in touch with them "assuming you perceive this person."

Card has associations with Massachusetts, as per CBS News Boston sources, and Massachusetts State Police and government specialists are arranged at the Maine line.

A "vehicle of interest" was recuperated by police in Lisbon, Maine, nearly seven miles southeast of Lewiston, State Police said.

Police likewise shared a photograph of a white vehicle and asked any individual who remembered it to contact Lewiston police. It was not quickly clear in the event that this was the very vehicle that had been recuperated in Lisbon, however it matched a depiction from the policing about a vehicle Card was known to have been driving.

State Police asked occupants of Lewiston and Lisbon to protect set up. "If it's not too much trouble, remain inside your home with the entryways locked," they composed via web-based entertainment.

Specialists later extended the sanctuary set up warning to Bowdoin, Maine, where Card is from. "If it's not too much trouble, remain inside your homes while in excess of 100 examiners, both neighborhood and government work to find Robert Card," they said.

The city of Coppery, Maine, which borders Lewiston toward the west, additionally encouraged occupants to shield set up. Lewiston is around 45 minutes north of Portland.

Various schools in the district are shut Thursday because of the manhunt, CBS Portland subsidiary WGME-television detailed. Portland is among the spots where schools will be closed.

Lewiston police said they answered Schemengees Bar and Grille and a bowling alley called Sparetime Diversion. The two organizations give off an impression of being around a 10-minute drive from one another.

A proprietor of Schemengees said in a Facebook post: "My heart is squashed. I'm speechless. In a brief moment your reality gets flip around out of the blue. We misfortune extraordinary individuals locally. How might we comprehend this. Conveying petitions to everybody."

One man at the bowling alley said he caught wind of 10 shots and thought the first was an inflatable popping. "I had my back gone to the entryway. What's more, when I turned and saw it was anything but an inflatable — he was holding a weapon — I just reserved it," he told The Related Press, adding that he then, at that point, rushed down the length of the rear entryway and his in the hardware behind the pins.

The Focal Maine Clinical Center in Lewiston said in a proclamation that it was "responding to a mass setback, mass shooter occasion," however didn't have further subtleties on the quantity of patients or seriousness of their wounds.

The Maine Clinical Center in Portland said it was getting "one patient vehicle" from the Focal Maine Clinical Center regarding the shootings. The Portland clinic said it had "cautioned on stand by staff and made basic consideration and working room limit fully expecting possible patient vehicles."

Maine has had between 16 to 29 crimes every year beginning around 2012, as indicated by the Reuters news administration, refering to State Police.

A White House official affirmed to CBS News that President Biden had been advised on "why is the mass shooting in Lewiston known up to this point."

A White House official likewise told CBS News Mr. Biden "ventured out" of a state supper respecting Australian Head of the state Anthony Albanese "to settle on decisions. He talked by telephone independently to Maine Lead representative Janet Plants, Congresspersons Angus Lord and Susan Collins, and Rep. Jared Brilliant about the shooting in Lewiston. The president offered full government support right after this horrendous assault."

The FBI is additionally answering, an organization official told CBS News.

Branch of Country Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has likewise been informed.

"The whole Branch of Country Security laments with the friends and family of those killed and harmed, and remains with the bold cops and specialists on call who are at present attempting to get and defend individuals of Lewiston," Mayorkas said in a proclamation.

Plants made an announcement saying she was informed on the circumstance. "I ask all individuals nearby to fall in line with State and neighborhood authorization," Factories said. "I will keep on observing the circumstance and stay in close contact with public wellbeing authorities."

Lord's office said in a proclamation that he was "profoundly miserable for the city of Lewiston and that multitude of stressed over their family, companions and neighbors."

Collins noted via online entertainment that she had likewise spoken with Mr. Biden. "As our state grieves this horrendous mass shooting, we value the help we've gotten from the nation over, including the call I got from President Biden offering help," she composed.