10-year-old girl among Maine mass shooting vitims as 18 confirmed dead, 13 wounded

Victims of the deadly mass shooting in Maine include a 10-year-old girl who was wounded when a gunman entered a bowling alley with an assault rifle and started shooting in Lewiston Maine on Wednesday night, authorities said.

In all 18 people were killed and 13 others were wounded at the Sparetime Recreation Bowl, which was hosting a youth league and Schemengees Bar and Grille — with a massive manhunt now underway for “armed and dangerous” gunman Robert Card.

“This attack strikes at the very heart of who we are,” Maine Gov. Janet Mills said during a press briefing. “This is a dark day for me.”

Maine State Police Col. William Ross said Card has been charged with eight counts of murder — the number of victims so far identified — and is expected to face 18 counts when all of the dead are eventually identified.

Fifteen died at the two shooting scenes while three others were pronounced dead at area hospitals, Ross said.

Mills said she had spoken to President Joe Biden and other federal officials, and said flags will be flown at half-mast throughout the nation for five days to commemorate the tragedy.

“I love this city just like I love the whole state,” Mills told reporters. “This city did not deserve this terrible assault on its citizens, on its peace of mind.

“No city does, no state, no people,” she said.

Card is presumed armed and dangerous and the public in two countes have been told to shelter in place.

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