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It’s unclear if the explosions were caused by flash bangs, guns, or something else entirely

Schools and shops shut as authorities search for heavily armed US Army reservist

Robert Card is ‘armed and dangerous’ authorities have said

Heavy law enforcement presence and possible ‘flash bangs’ heard near property belonging to suspect

Barely four years before a gunman’s deadly rampage in Maine, the state’s governor signed a law aimed at preventing mass shootings

Although the 40-year-old is the ‘most loving’ person, Karen Card said, ‘he had an acute episode of mental health, and it’s been a struggle’ over the last year

A search for 40-year-old Robert Card, of Bowdoin, Maine, is underway. The shooting, which killed 18 people, is the 36th mass killing in the United States this year, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today, in partnership with Northeastern University.

Residents of Lewiston, Maine and neraby areas were asked to shelter in place as police search for the suspected gunman