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Manhunt underway after Maine shooting rampage

By Maureen Chowdhury, Amir Vera, Tori B. Powell, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Jessie Yeung, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Leinz Vales, Aditi Sangal, Alisha Ebrahimji, Matt Meyer and Emma Tucker, CNN

Updated 11:47 p.m. ET, October 26, 2023

What we know so far

An intensive manhunt is still underway for a suspect in Wednesday's shooting rin place and report any suspicious activity to authorities. Lewiston is the state's second-largest city and is located about 36 miles north of Portland. The rampage in Maine is the deadliest US mass shooting since the Uvalde school massacre. It adds to a grim docket of 565 such incidents, where four or more people are shot excluding the shooter, across the country this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. ll

A shooting rampage in Lewiston, Maine, left 18 dead and 13 more injured Wednesday evening after a gunman opened fire on a bowling alley and a restaurant.

Lewiston is a sprawling residential and industrial area just off the Maine Turnpike and is home to two hospitals and the private liberal arts school Bates College. It’s a largely working-class community, with a median household income of about $48,000 and in which about 16% of the population lives in poverty, according to the US Census.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills governor, who met her husband in Lewiston, described it as a “special place.”

“It’s a close-knit community with a long history of hard work, of persistence, of faith, of opening its big heart to people everywhere,” Mills said. “This city did not deserve this terrible assault on its citizens, on its peace of mind, on its sense of security. No city does, no state, no people.”

President Joe Biden has spoken by phone with Maine lawmakers and “offered full federal support in the wake of this horrific attack,” the White House said in a statement.

Lewiston Mayor Carl Sheline is “heartbroken for our city and our people,” he said. “Lewiston is known for our strength and grit and we will need both in the days to come.”

Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce President Shanna Cox on Thursday called the scene of both attacks “family locations.”

“It was family league activity at the bowling alley. The likeliness of this having direct impact for so many here is so real.”

Auburn Mayor Jason Levesque lost friends in the shooting, he told “CNN This Morning.” A teenager who went to school with his son was shot and is expected to recover, he said.

“There’s going to be very few people in this community that have not been touched by this,” he said. “It’s going to be with me for the rest of my life, and it’s really hard for me to explain that.”

“The other folks that I knew that were there either as witnesses or family members of witnesses; it’s obviously traumatic,” Levesque said. “The bright spot was seeing individuals reunified with their loved ones after not knowing for so long, but on the on the other side, the ones that were waiting and waiting, probably would never be reunified.” 

Father of 2-year-old identified as one of the victims of the Lewiston mass shootings

From CNN’s Amanda Jackson and David Williams

Lewiston shooting victim Peyton Brewer-Ross. Lewiston shooting victim Peyton Brewer-Ross. Provided to CNN

Peyton Brewer-Ross, 39, was participating in a cornhole tournament at Schemengees Bar and Grille when he was killed during Wednesday’s mass shooting in Lewiston, his brother Ralph Brewer told CNN.

Brewer-Ross loved playing cornhole and enjoying hanging out with friends at Schemengees, his brother said. “It’s just surreal and sad. Now my brother is no longer here, along with 17 others.” Brewer told CNN in a phone interview Thursday. “He just went to play cornhole. He is the nicest person you will ever meet. “He never said a bad word to anyone.”

“He loved being a father more than anything,” his older brother said of Brewer-Ross. Two weeks ago, Brewer-Ross celebrated his daughter Elle's second birthday.

“She woke up telling her mom, Rachel [Sloat], ‘where’s daddy, where’s daddy.’” Brewer said. “At two-years-old, she isn’t going to remember any of this, but in the same breath, she isn’t going to have her dad be there the rest of her life.”

In the past five years, Brewer-Ross worked his way through the iron pipefitter apprenticeship program and graduated last year. When he wasn’t spending time with his family, he enjoyed comics, cornhole, playing games and having fun with friends, his brother said.

“We are walking around in a daze not knowing what to say, what to do, or how to act, because of a senseless shooting,” Brewer said. “It’s so unbelievable that this can continue to happen over and over again and nothing changes.”



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