The ongoing manhunt in lewiston, maine. And the surrounding communities. Where theres fear among residents this may not be over. E death toll from two separate shootings at a Bowling Alley and restaurant is 18 with 13 others injured, after a senseless assault devastating the community and the state of maine. Look, lewiston is a special place. Its a closeknit community with a long history of hard work, persistence, of faith, of opening its big heart to people everywhere. I love this place, just as i love our whole state with my entire heart. Im so deeply saddened, as is everyone of the 1. 3 Million People of this beautiful state. 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. This Attack Strikes at the very heart of who we are and the values we hold dear for this precious place we call home. Devastating and emotional for the governor and all the residents. Photos released overnight show
Because people have said on this three-year anniversary of sandy hook if the killing of 20 children didn t move congress, didn t move the political system to act, what possibly could. the governor saying he thinks the reality of more san bernardino style terrorist attacks in this country with guns will. also, we can t forget what happened to gabbi giffords in 2011. if one of their own colleagues can almost be assassinated at a supermarket and we go on to what happened in sandy hook, what is going to get their attention, if anything. steve, thanks so much. appreciate that. colin godard joins me now, a survivor of the virginia tech mass shooting, senior policy advocate for every town for gun safety. the violence of paris and san bernardino is just the latest of what we have been covering and talking about for years now, but obviously, the country is focused on this terror threat, the gun violence threat. we have the new nbc news/ wall street journal poll saying 29% of those surveyed
Trying to discover that. reporter: sheriff, why do you think the suspect did this? what was the motive for the shooting? not sure. we re looking into that. it s that he was a prior employee there. we re looking at all of those dimensions, what that may look like. but right now there has not been a motive as per se. many of you have gotten a lot of the correspondence, emails that had been sent out. it s obvious that there was this gentleman was disturbed in some way of the way things had transpired at some point in his life. it would appear things were spiraling out of control, but we re still looking into that. reporter: you believe there was a racial component here? have no comment on that at repeat that? reporter: did he say anything to authorities? i can t answer that at this time. reporter: tell us a little bit, sheriff, about the
Approximately 1:30 p.m. today the suspect from this incident, the shooting, died at fairfax and nova hospital in northern virginia as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. i want to express my condolences to wdbj 7 tv for their loss this morning. we know this has been a very difficult situation to manage professionally and personally, and we sincerely appreciate their cooperation and assistance with the ongoing investigation and our search efforts. we are keeping miss vicky gardner with the smith mount lake regional chamber of comerrs in our thoughts and prayers as she continues to undergo treatment for injuries sustained in the shooting. also want to thank the residents
To him, things that he apparently did at some point. so far the station manager says that there is really no merit to these complaints. whatever the problem was that he had in his head, it wasn t enough to just kill9: these people. he then had to start posting about it. yeah. in those posts he accused her of issuing racist comments against him and he accused adam ward of on filing some sort of a complaint with human resources. we re continuing to follow the story. peter doocy just arriving at the scene. peter, thank you. we re still awaiting the press conference to start from the sheriff s department. we ll bring you back there again live immediately when that happens. in the meantime the suspected shooter did not appear to want to hide his identity, alelegedl sending a 23-page fax to abc news in new york and posting several videos of the shooting online. this is earlier file video of the shooter doing reporter