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Edward Helmore in Lewiston

‘It’s unreal’: Maine residents lock doors for first time as police hunt for gunman

A two-story building with aluminum siding at the bottom of a hill, with a big grassy lawn in front of it, telephone poles lining the street and yellow police tape strung between two of them, and a dozen cars with multiple men in black jackets standing around.
Law enforcement officers outside the Schemengees Bar and Grille on Thursday in Lewiston, Maine. Photograph: Scott Eisen/Getty Images

Halloween decorations for spooky season were up in the Maine city of Lewiston but the community’s streets were mostly quiet on Thursday, a day after a gunman killed 18 people at a local bowling alley and nearby bar in an act of horror that was all too real.

Police roadblocks prevented access to some areas of the town – part of a partial lockdown announced after the 40-year-old murder suspect, Robert Card, fled the scene, leaving his car several miles away near a boat dock. He is still on the run as hundreds of police search for him.

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