Lewiston, Maine police seek guy related to mass shootings

News sites reported 16 to 22 deaths and scores of injuries in mass shootings at a pub and bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine, while hundreds of police hunted for a guy.Officials indicated there were several casualties but did not release numbers.

State and local police identified Robert R. Card, 40, as a suspect after he posted photos of a guy with a semi-automatic weapon on Facebook. Wednesday's crime scene photos showed a bearded guy in a brown sweatshirt and pants holding the firearm in the shooting position.

A Washington official said President Joe Biden has been informed and will get updates.If 22 are confirmed dead, the massacre would be the deadliest in the US since August 2019, when a gunman opened fire on shoppers at an El Paso Walmart with an AK-47 rifle, killing 23 in an anti-Hispanic hate crime, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

The number of U.S. shootings involving four or more victims has increased since the COVID-19 epidemic started in 2020, with 647 in 2022 and 679 anticipated for 2023 as of July, according to archival data.

A 2017 high-rise hotel shooter killed 58 people at a Las Vegas country music festival, the worst U.S. mass shooting.