Dive teams, heavily armed officers search for Maine mass shooting suspect Robert Card
DURHAM, Maine - Police teams spent Friday scrambling from one scene to the next, searching for Robert Card, the suspected gunman in the Lewiston, Maine mass shooting. Card was found dead Friday night near a recycling plant in the Lisbon area, multiple law enforcement sources confirmed to CBS News.
"Everybody says doesn't happen in your backyard. Well, it does," said Betsy McCartney. She watched as her neighbors on Peter Vier Road in Durham were brought to their knees outside their home surrounded by a heavily-armed SWAT team. Eventually police let them go and moved on.
"They asked the neighbors what was going on, and they said the guy could've been around here in the last couple nights," said McCartney.
A police helicopter hovered over Lisbon Falls. Dive teams searched underwater. Ground crews dressed in camouflage moved through the woods.
"I think that every minute that this goes on, we're more and more concerned," said Maine Public Safety Commissioner Mike Sauschuck earlier on Friday. "What's the next thing that's going to happen?"
Crews searched some farmland in Lisbon. Boats also used sonar through the Androscoggin River in a grid pattern near the spot where the suspected gunman's vehicle was discovered abandoned at a Lisbon Falls boat launch.
"They could be dragging a diver behind them literally, while that diver is checking for evidence, checking for potential bodies," said Sauschuck.
A helicopter used thermal imagery directing crews to specific focal points. "Those are based on points last seen, and trying to rule out different areas where he may be," said Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Commissioner Mark Latti.
By Friday morning, police had received more than 530 tips. "There's no question in my mind that we will take this individual into custody," said Sauschuck. "One way or the other."
