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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sheila Flynn and Andrea Blanco

‘We’re praying for him’: Lewiston begins to heal after 48 hours of fear ends with shooting suspect’s death

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Pamela Sullivan walked sombrely out of Holy Family Catholic Church on Saturday with her husband and two grown children, the family praying together at the 100-year-old parish church as they grappled with the loss of friends killed in the Lewiston massacre in Maine – after enduring two days of anxious lockdown.

“We knew some of the victims, and we live in Lisbon Falls; about two miles from us was where his [the killer’s] body was found,” Ms Sullivan told The Independent. “And we’ve just been under lockdown ... we’ve been going through a lot. We had some pretty close people in our lives who were just taken away, so we’ve been grieving a lot.”

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