6:56 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2023
The shootings started around 6:56 p.m., Maine Public Safety Commissioner Michael Sauschuck said during a news conference late Wednesday evening.
Auburn’s communications center received a 911 call at that time about a man shooting in Just-In-Time Recreation at 24 Mollison Way, Maine State Police Col. William Ross said during a news conference Thursday morning.
6:58 p.m.
Plainclothes Lewiston police officers respond to 911 calls at Just-In-Time Recreation. The officers were at a nearby shooting range and got to the bowling alley in 90 seconds.
7 p.m.
The first uniformed Lewiston police officer arrives at Just-In-Time.
7:01 p.m.
Eight additional uniformed Lewiston police officers arrive at Just-In-Time.
7:07 p.m.
The first Maine State Police trooper arrives at Just-In-Time.
7:08 p.m.
The communications center received “multiple 911 calls about an active shooter” inside Schemengees Bar and Grille Restaurant on Lincoln Street, Ross said during Thursday’s news conference. A large law enforcement response assisted Lewiston police in trying to identify the shooter and what was happening, he said. Ross called it a “fast-paced, fast-moving, very fluid scene, very dangerous scene that these guys and girls are going into.”
7:10 p.m.
Maine State Police receive its first call about the shooting at Schemengees Bar and Grille Restaurant.
Lewiston resident Robin Payne reports seeing a flurry of police cars, firetrucks and ambulances head toward Schemengees Bar and Grille Restaurant, located less than a quarter-mile from Payne on Lincoln Street, at around 7:10 p.m.
7:13 p.m.
Lewiston police officers and Maine State Police troopers arrive at Schemengees Bar and Grille Restaurant.
7:19 p.m.
Footage from Payne’s doorbell camera showed a police officer outside her house with a long gun, and neighbors reported that he told them to go inside.
7:24 p.m.
Central Maine Healthcare’s trauma center in Lewiston receives its first patient, Chief Medical Officer John Alexander said during a news conference Thursday morning. Within about 45 minutes, medical workers were treating 14 critically ill patients, he said.
The hospital had normal staffing Wednesday night, but because of the influx of patients, about 100 off-duty medical workers came in to help care for patients. That included victims of the shootings and those who were already receiving care at the hospital.
At one point during the evening, there were about 10 ambulance crews outside the trauma center, Alexander said. LifeFlight of Maine as well as nearby medical centers in Boston and Dartmouth provided helicopter services.
8:06 p.m.
Police released a photo of the shooter to the media.
8:30 p.m.
Officials in Auburn urged residents to shelter in place, lock all doors and report suspicious people.
9:17 p.m.
Lewiston police released photos of a vehicle they were trying to find: a small white car whose bumper may have been painted black.
9:26 p.m.
Lewiston police received a call identifying the man in the distributed photos as Robert Card, 40, of Bowdoin, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesperson Shannon Moss said.
9:56 p.m.
The Lisbon Police Department notified Lewiston police that they located a white Subaru at Paper Mills Trail and Miller Park Boat Launch on Frost Hill in Lisbon, Moss said. The vehicle was traced to Card.
Around 11 p.m.
Moss confirmed to the Bangor Daily News that Card is a person of interest.
Reunification center opened at Auburn Middle School on 38 Falcon Drive for people searching for their loved ones.
Midnight
Thursday, Oct. 26
About 40 to 45 people had come through the reunification center shortly after midnight on Thursday, Auburn Mayor Jason Levesque said.
Between 11:56 p.m. Wednesday and 2:22 a.m. Thursday
The website FlightAware shared an image showing a New Hampshire State Police helicopter searching for Card, a suspect in the Lewiston shootings.
Just before 11 a.m.
Authorities held a news conference where they confirmed that 18 people were killed and 13 injured. Seven died at Just-In-Time Recreation, eight died at Schemengees, and three who had been wounded died at area hospitals, Ross said.
6 p.m.
U.S. Rep. Jared Golden reverses his position on gun control during a press conference at Lewiston City Hall, announcing his support of assault weapons bans. “For the good of my community, I will work with any colleague to get this done in the time that I have left in Congress,” Golden said.
7:15 p.m.
Police surround a property on Meadow Road in Bowdoin that belongs to a member of Card’s family. Reporters hear announcements over a loudspeaker addressing Card by name, saying “We know you’re inside” and telling the suspect to come out with his hands up.
7:52 p.m.
A Maine Department of Public Safety Official clarifies that police are using standard language when executing a search warrant and it is not known if Card is inside any of the properties police will search.
10:45 a.m.
Friday, Oct. 29
A large police presence gathers near the Androscoggin River to conduct a water search for Card. Lisbon Police Chief Ryan McGee said officers have “followed up on leads all night long.”
11:13 a.m.
Half a dozen police vehicles in the staging area take off toward the boat launch where Card’s car was found Wednesday evening. Two have lights and sirens on.
12 p.m.
Police surround a greenhouse off Route 196 in Lisbon where a man told reporters he heard a gunshot. McGee says police searched and found nothing.
12:30 p.m.
More than a dozen heavily armed law enforcement officers conduct a search on Peter Vier Road in Durham, where some of Card’s family members on property.
3:30 p.m.
Half a dozen police inspect a dam in Lisbon Falls. Two were in a small motor boat in the water, armed with long poles they plunged deep into the water to move leaves and other material caught in front of two grates on the dam.
5 p.m.
The state medical examiner’s office identifies all 18 people killed in Wednesday’s mass shootings. Their names are revealed at an afternoon press conference with the Maine State Police. The victims are Ronald G. Morin, 55; Peyton Brewer-Ross, 40; Joshua A. Seal, 36; Bryan M. MacFarlane, 41; Joseph Lawrence Walker, 57; Arthur Fred Strout, 42; Maxx A. Hathaway, 35; Stephen M. Vozzella, 45; Thomas Ryan Conrad, 34; Michael R. Deslauriers II, 51; Jason Adam Walker, 51; Tricia C. Asselin, 53; Aaron Young, 14; William A. Young, 44; Robert E. Violette, 76; Lucille M. Violette, 73; William Frank Brackett, 48; and Keith D. Macneir, 54.
Officials lift the shelter-in-place orders for Lewiston, Lisbon and Bowdoin.
7:45 p.m.
Card’s body is found at the Maine Recycling Corporation at 61 Capital Ave. in Lisbon, U.S. Sen. Angus King confirms to the BDN. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
10 a.m.
Saturday, Oct. 28
Public Safety Commissioner Michael Sauschuck reveals that the Maine Recycling Corporation location had been cleared twice previously, as Card was a former employee of the business. Card’s body was found in a trailer in an overflow parking lot across the street from the original search locations.
3:16 p.m.
Three people from the Lewiston shootings are in critical condition at Central Maine Medical Center, while one person is in stable condition at the hospital. One person was moved to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, according to CMMC.
6 p.m.
At a vigil in Kennedy Park in Lewiston, Arthur Barnard, whose son Arthur Strout was killed at Schemengees Bar and Grille Restaurant, said “Something’s gotta change with these guns.”
Around 9 p.m.
Lewiston Superintendent Jake Langlais announces a plan to ease students back into classrooms over the following weeks. Teachers will return on Monday, Oct. 30, and students will return on Tuesday, Oct. 31.
