Live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. A Mass Murderer is on the loose in maine today. One officers say has military training, a proficiency in weapons, and multiple ways to evade police. That Reality Compounding the fear and grief for locals trying to process the 565th Mass Shooting in the u. S. This year. In this case, 18 dead, 13 more wounded, and the Peaceful Community of lewiston changed forever. 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. So now as Law Enforcement is in a fullscale search to track down the suspect, robert card, they are also trying to piece together the details of who he is and why he may have done this. Plus, with word that he had been committed to a Mental Hospital earlier this year, a critical question, why did he have a gun and not just any gun, but an assaultstyle rifle in the first place . We start right there in southern maine, a state and communit
Other people run, that s okay, that s on them. i m here for everybody else. reporter: how many people did you help? seven. reporter: how many people did you see down? at least 20. every other person i saw down has an article of my clothing. none of this is mine. look, man, i m an american. i m proud of where i m fro from. i carry aweapon. obviously you can t carry in here. not me, man. reporter: where were you when the shots happened. jason aldean took off. it did sounds like fireworks.
Office reports no injuries. pennsylvania. a day before that ohio incident, this deadly blast in allen town killed five people, flattened a pair of row houses and set fire to a block of homes. investigators focusing on 83-year-old cast iron gas maine. the incident raising new questions about the safety of the nation s aging pipeline network. north carolina. a gruesome end to an attempted bank robbery and it played out on live tv in a raleigh suburb. authorities say the 19-year-old suspect took seven hostages, later releasing four. one woman fell to her knees when she got outside. armed officers went in and grabbed her police also evacuated a nearby day care. there are at love them helping the kids get out. gunman made final move after darkness fell. leaving the bank with an aweapon aimed right at a hostage head. that s when a police sniper took him out. i never seen someone killed before. it s so scary.