Police appeared to be making an arrest at Robert Card’s house on Thursday night, according to CNN. Officers could be heard shouting for someone to come out and walk to the front of the property and their crew was asked to switch off their lights.
Officers ordered someone inside to come out of the house “with nothing in their hands” and that their “safety could be guaranteed.”
As a manhunt to catch the “armed and dangerous” suspect wanted in connection to two mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine, that left 18 people dead and 13 injured, nears its 24th hour, CNN reports loud bangs from the vicinity of suspect Robert Card’s home in the vicinity of Bowdoin.
There was speculation that the noise could have been flash bangs used by police in stand-offs with armed suspects. Shortly after, a video emerged of law enforcement outside a property with a loudhailer heard to announce: “FBI! Open the door!”
On Wednesday night, a gunman opened fire in the Just-in-Time Recreation bowling alley and then the Schemengees Bar & Grille at around 7pm. Terrifying surveillance footage grabs showed the shooter armed with a rifle. The first victims have now been named by family members.
An intensive manhunt for 40-year-old Mr Card began and he was formally identified as the suspect in the now active homicide investigation during a press conference on Thursday morning.
Residents across Maine have been sheltered in place since Wednesday night.
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