Underway for a man who massacred over a dozen people in the state of maine. Robert card, 40 years old, is the primary suspect in a mass shooting in Lewiston Maine that left 18 people dead, 13 injured. At this moment, authorities, including fbi swat teams, using robots and drones, have surrounded his home in bowdoin, maine. Theyre serving a Search Warrant. Police helicopters are up above. Loud bangs were reported from the house. We believe they may have been flash grenades deployed by Law Enforcement. Police on bullhorns have been heard saying walk out with your hands up. You are under arrest, please come out of the house now. Jesse the police do not know if the suspect is inside the house, they have not made contact with anybody inside yet t suspect is believed to be Armed And Dangerous and has been on the loose for the last 24 hours. Last night around 7 00, gunfire rang out at a bowling alley. One eyewitness had to hide behind the bowling pins. Out of nowhere he just came in and there
i understand that fbi resources from the bureau in dallas and san antonio, they re making their way to midland to help with this investigation but when we talk about this investigation, we usually focus on buildings. on places that are confined. we re talking about a 20 mile stretch of highway. how do you begin that process? and what kind of time does that take? yeah, this is going to be a difficult one and i think the fbi is the right group to handle this as far as the crime scene aspect of this. now they have already deployed what we call ert or their evidence response teams to midland and to odessa and to your point, this was a rolling crisis site. it was not a static site where police can take their time and work through it. a couple of important things here i think for police to focus on. when you re looking at the ballistics and the weapon, there s three things that you look at. the internal ballistics meaning did that round come from that
it could also be two guys on drugs, so we have to remember that this happens, you know, unfortunately as well. and so we ll just wait, but those are the three buckets that we ll probably hear a lot about in the next half hour. james, if there are, in fact, multiple shooters, how would law enforcement on the ground be handling that? first of all, i mean, juliette nailed it here. the issue for law enforcement with this essentially moving crisis site is to try to do the calculus in realtime in a vacuum to figure out what the motivations and causes are. as you pointed out, it could be a whole host of things. that obviously is going to have a huge impact on the response. police have to assume that this active shooter or active shooters are looking just to harm as many people as possible, until proven differently. and in this instance, again, we don t know if this is a domestic dispute, if it s workplace violence, if it s a bias crime, if it s an active of terrorism,
getting the information out. we call this in law enforcement, a bolof, a be on the lookout for. this is a very difficult situation with law enforcement. you never want a crisis site to be mobile. you want to keep it pinned down. you want to surround it, move all the civilians out of the way, tend to the wounded, handle what you need to handle and attempt to handle negotiations or intradict the shooter or shooters. with one or more being on the move, it makes it more difficult to do. we are in a situation where the public has to understand what the department of homeland security and fbi constantly teaching these situations, you need to run or evacuate, if you can. you need to hide if you must. fight if you have no other alternative, and then the fourth piece of that, you ve got to contact law enforcement if you have any details of what you
comfortable enough on the outside of the building. and that s a possibility. so i wouldn t be too much am to that, thinking there s some folks standing around outside in a relaxed poster. because this is the way we do law enforcement. if you bring one bad guy, we re bringing 100. every law enforcement agency whether it s feds, the locales, the state police, they re going to converge on that site because this started out as a hot pursuit, a police pursuit, which is exceedingly difficult for law enforcement because you take vehicle and turn that into a rolling crisis site. had it greatest fear we have is that vehicle rolls into the it a are resident s neighborhood or as in this instance crashes into a business and the person jumps out of the vehicle and iners that business. now the kn news is you ve gone from a rolling crisis site to a stationary crisis site. had bad news is we don t know