LEWISTON, Maine — More shots were fired downtown Friday and witnesses said it came to a halt only when a machine-gun-style weapon jammed and the shooter fled.
It happened on Horton Street at about 5:30 p.m. Witnesses said several shots — possibly more than a dozen — were fired by a man who stood in the street, firing first in the air and then at a group of people who were running away.
It was believed nobody was struck.
One man who lives in an apartment near the scene said a fight between two groups of people led to the shots. One group of men had jumped a smaller group, he said, and then an all-out brawl began in the street.
Soon after, a tall, skinny man pulled out a Mac-10 and fired into the air, a witness said.
“He just fired over and over straight up in the air,” said Bryan Morin, who witnessed the fight. “Then he brought the gun down and started firing down the street.”
After the gun jammed, the shooter fled on foot, witnesses said, leaving his sandals behind in the street. One woman said she watched him scale a fence in his bare feet as he fled.
Several police officers arrived and found the gun at the scene. They also began searching for a car that was seen speeding away from the area.
Minutes later, a police officer located the car, a blue Dodge Charger, and followed it into the parking lot at Elizabeth Ann, a convenience store on Sabattus Street.
“Officer Brian Beauparlant came right in behind the car and he got them out of there at gunpoint,” a store clerk said.
Two men were removed from the car and taken into custody, police said. Another man was found back in the area of Horton Street and was also taken to the police station.
On Horton Street, it was chaos in the minutes following the shooting. More than a hundred people watched from sidewalks, from windows and front porches as police sorted out the scene.
It was the third shooting incident in a week in downtown Lewiston.
“Auburn is looking better and better all the time,” one woman said.
Police were questioning the suspects as well as several witnesses and could not say exactly what motivated the fight and subsequent shots.
A detective was examining the shooting scene and gathering evidence an hour after the shots were fired.
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Lewiston needs a name change…..possibly O.K. Corral might be fitting……
maybe “little mogadishu” instead?
Keep it up, AL. Don’t let the facts get in the way of your bias. Or your ignorance.
where are these alleged “facts” that refute the evidence that has been presented so far in these shootings?
See earlier post. I offer you a statement from police. While you’re at it, why don’t you tell us what in the above article is “evidence” that Somalis were involved?
Lewiston is becoming a dangerous place. Don’t leave your house without a gun to protect yourself.
Must be a real bad-ass with his flip-flops and all…
Super smart, leaves his flip flops and the GUN in the street, had to scale the fence in his bare feet. Not only are these punks getting younger, they are about as stupid as they come. The only good thing to happen here is that no one was shot when this clown started firing down the street. So sad to think that this kind of B.S. is coming to your local town. Get yourself a good gun, learn to use it and lock the doors!
I remember when Lewiston was a nice quiet town.
thank catholic charities.
I used to eat a nice lunch at the Cedar Street Cafe, circa 1974 or so with my Grandpa who worked at Central Maine Power near there. I pulled off the interstate last year on my way back to ‘Carolina from visiting my folks up in the county, was going to get a hotel looked around and kept on going. Social engineering at its finest. When I move back to Maine next year, it will be far from that place.
Ain’t that the truth for entirely different reasons.
Somalis weren’t part of this crap however.
proof? source?
If it wasn’t for them trying to be politically they could catch all the trouble makers.
When did lewiston really start going downhill?
anyone?
right around 10 years ago or so?
what does that coincide with….
More like 35 years ago. What does that coincide with?
democrats.
Nice try. None of this violence involves immigrants or refugees.
do you have proof of this? or are you just speculating that there’s no possible way anyone other than a native pasty white mainer could be responsible for the numerous shootings in the lewiston area this week?
Actually, AL, unlike you, I didn’t leap to any conclusions about the race or nationality of those allegedly involved upon reading the above article. I simply know what was subsequently stated by the Lewiston police and which the BDN has not printed:
“Kareem Johnson, 28, and Robert Buck, 22, were charged with reckless conduct. Johnson lists a North Carolina address, but police say he had been living in Lewiston.
“Nijie Bradley, 22, was arrested on a probation hold as part of the investigation, police said. The three men were taken to the Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn.”
Johnson, Buck and Bradley: Apparently all Somalian names in your book. Best to you from Little Mogadishu, where our Somalian neighbors are not involved in violence. In fact, if you were remotely familiar with what’s going on downtown, you would know that police are looking at a turf war between two specific gangs, neither of them made up of refugees.
I remember when the Maniac’s first came to Lewiston. It was fun to take your kids to watch some decent hockey, at a good price. With the influx of Somalis, it became a terrible place to subject your kid’s to….just plain rude people. I’m not saying that this had anything to do with the finacial fall of the Maniac’s, however I do know many other’s who stopped going due to the Somali rude idiots!!!Today’s Lewsiton was predicted years ago due to those people. And yes, bad people are everywhere, and yes, Lewiston did always have it’s share of them, but now???? I will not bo going to that town for any reason.
pretty sure the somalians aren’t involved in this one. also pretty sure WE ALL come from immigrants. does that mean we’re all bad too?? give me a break, get a life, and get over your self. they’re here, the’re staying. get used to it. this isn’t YOUR WORLD
glorified gangsta mentality, a product of a politicaly correct country.
It’s ok for them to wanna be gangstas and listen to rap, it’s in their culture. It has lead to many successful individuals.
so funny thing is tha kid was white so what u gotta say now
And your point is? Eminem is white. Look at the $$$ he has. What’s with that huh? Color means nothing
my point is dont jump to conclusions if u dont kno tha facts nothing worse than ppl who profile ur arse the person was obviously referring to tha black community with that snide remark so go that way
And Marshall Mathers (Eminem) is SUCH a great model citizen for our young people to emulate. Talented – sure – but I know his lyrics well and it’s only food for idiots with a persecution complex.
Dodge Charger and shooting a MAC-10 in the air in Lewiston. Something tells me this guy doesn’t have a legitimate day job. Most likely, the person of interest has an EBT card or takes them in trade.
And what exactly are you trying to say with the ‘dodge charger’ comment? Seriously??
Nothing against nice cars. It just seems every drug dealer or gangbanger wannabe has a high end vehicle. You seem them in every public housing project.
Sounds like the neighborhood needs to be leveled.
It’s high time for these wanna be low lifes to be snapped to attention. Maine needs to really crack down on these people and the judges need to lock them up for a few decades to point out the error of thier ways. Keep the Cough*** Gangsta***Cough… types south of Maine. Rap mentality in Maine is such a joke.
your mentality in maine is the joke my friend
BDN headline “Shooting leads to brawl” shouldn’t that be flipped?
Yeah.. either my reading comprehension is bad or the author goofed on the title.
From the actual article:
One man who lives in an apartment near the scene said a fight between two groups of people led to the shots.
More PC garbage reporting. C’mon….report the facts. Was the suspect white? black? red? pale? Was he a youth or a middle-aged man? Beard or clean-shaven? Black hair, curly hair? Blond hair? Red Hair? You give readers more information about the car than the shooter…right down to color, make and model ….but leave the human description to imagination. What ever happened to factual, detail-oriented reporting? Also, the “machine-gun style weapon” is nothing but added hype. It’s either a machine gun (shoots more than a single round per single pull of the trigger) or it’s not. Sort of like calling a Hummer a “military-style vehicle”.
I have never tried to be politically correct nor will i. But no matter what anyone says untill the somali’s and wanna be gansta’s started coming here to collect welfare we did not have these problems. Now i don’t mean to insult all the liberals out there and i am a lifelong democrat just a little more concervitive. But why do we bother to continue bringing people here who obviously do not respect our laws. Hell most do not work, but drive better vehicles and have free health care at the tax payers exspence. Yet those of us who were born here and worked all of our lives are not getting the respect from these people that we should, they are truly rude. When i grew up back in the day if you talked to adults the way these people do, you would get punched straight in the mouth. Look how long are we gonna put up with this? They should either start being respectful of OUR laws or be put out on thier rears.
Right. We didn’t have these problems until the Somalis arrived. So who made Knox, Bartlett, Pierce and Lisbon streets notorious in the seventies and eighties for prostitution, drugs and violence? Police blamed drug runners out of Lowell, Mass.
Yes we had some problems then, but at least i did’nt worry about geting shot by some stupid wanna be gansta. back then if you did’nt mess with those people they did’nt mess with you. Although i did’nt live in that nieghborhood i had friends that did and nobody got stabbed or shot at every couple of days like now. The worst that would happen is you would get beat up and that was if you stuck your nose where it did not belong !!!!!
carpet bomb that city with the american air force
I guess they sent Delta and the Rangers to the wrong Mog
We need a new prison in Milo and pass the three felony law are it’s going to get worst.You can comitt crime after crime in Maine and just get few years.No room at the inn