{"id":1877,"date":"2023-10-28T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T08:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2023-12-19T16:18:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T08:18:38","slug":"suspect-in-mass-shooting-in-maine-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2023\/10\/28\/suspect-in-mass-shooting-in-maine-found-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"SUSPECT IN MASS SHOOTING IN MAINE FOUND DEAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>THE suspect in the killing of 18 people in the US state of Maine was found dead by the police Friday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Robert Card, 40, was discovered lifeless near a recycling facility near the city of Lewiston, where the shootings occurred, with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our community can now breathe a sigh of relief,&#8221; Police Chief David St. Pierre said at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was very elated tonight when I got the call&#8230; advising me of the revelation of what took place and that Mr. Card is deceased and no longer a threat to our community or any other community,&#8221; the police chief said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The shooting rampage took place late Wednesday at a local bowling alley and later at an area bar.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Police said Card opened fire with a high-powered sniper rifle, killing 18 and wounding 13 others, before fleeing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of local, state, and federal law enforcement officials began an intensive manhunt that left the small community of 37,000 in fear and under a shelter-in-place order for almost 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>It was the 567th mass shooting in the US in 2023 and the deadliest this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, an online registry of violent gun occurrences. <strong><em>(Anadolu)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE suspect in the killing of 18 people in the US state of Maine was found dead by the police Friday. Robert Card, 40, was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}