Follow live updates on a shooting in Lewiston, Maine, that left at least 16 people dead when a man opened fire at a bar and a bowling alley.
WHAT TO KNOW
— Police are searching for a person of interest who is a trained firearms instructor.
— Here’s what we know about the suspect and where the shooting happened.
— The shooting is the 36th mass killing in the United States this year.
MAINE SHOOTING ANGERS PARENT OF COLLEGE STUDENT
Diana Florence said her son, a sophomore at Bates College in Lewiston, stayed in his dorm with his roommate with the blinds closed.
Her daughter is a senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which was locked down twice last month, once when a professor was killed and again two weeks later when a man brandished a gun in the student union building.
“I could not believe it — that this is happening again. It’s happening to my son after it just happened to my daughter,” she said in a phone interview Thursday.
Florence, of New York, said she and her son spoke and texted late into the night and he was shaken up but OK. Meanwhile, she was left angry.
“I think this is about our laws, frankly. That we cannot seem to pass any sort of sensible gun laws or attack mental health in the way we should,” she said. “And our kids are paying the price. And even if they’re not killed or injured the trauma that is going to linger long past the semester is palpable.”
