Card is now formally a suspect, he has been charged with eight counts of murder. One for each of the victims identified by police so far. As Police Identify more of the victims, we anticipate the number of charges will rise. Tonight, authorities reiterated that card is still at large. And the man hunt is continuing by air, land, nc. In the last hour, there is been significant Law Enforcement presence near a home in bowden, maine, in connection to their search for robert card. According to the nbc affiliate, a Search Warrant was executed at that home earlier today. It is Standard Practice to search any property affiliated with a suspect, and Law Enforcement officials tell nbc news that, as of right now, there is no clear indication that card is in that home. Or at any specific address. You are looking at live footage of this police searched near that bowden home, or shortly after seven pm, eastern, our nbc news affiliate reported police saying, robert come out with your hands up. Mean s
Good to be with you, im katy tur. A church, a synagogue, a walmart, a school, a grocery store, a nightclub, a spa, a shopping mall, a neighbors house, a chinese new years celebration, a bank, a hospital, and now a bar and grille, and Bowling Alley where a gunman killed 18 people and injured 13 others. Police have i. D. d him as 40yearold robert card, a man with a recent record of Mental Health issues, a man who has now been on the run for 20 hours, perhaps hiding somewhere in rural maine, perhaps long gone. The Lewiston Police department, federal, state, county, and other municipalities are involved in a coordinated search at this moment for this individual. The search to apprehend this person both happen simultaneously. Our reality for today is the suspect is still at large, and we want to provide Community Support for the victims, for the families, and the communities across the state. But we also have an incredibly strong, laser like focus on bringing this suspect into custody, and
Members of Robert Card's family broke their public silence Thursday to make emotional pleas for improvements to the Army, law enforcement and mental health systems that they say failed to help them in the months before he committed the state's deadliest mass shooting.
In emotional testimony before the commission investigating the tragedy, family members of Lewiston shooter Robert Card called on law enforcement, the media, the Army and others to do better in the future. The relatives said they blame themselves for not doing more to stop him.