Maine shooting: Timeline of how attack that killed 18 unfolded in Lewiston

Maine State Police said a suspect in the Lewiston, Maine, mass shooting has been charged with murder and provided a timeline to the attack that left 18 dead and 13 injured.

Maine State Police Col. William Ross said during a press conference on Thursday that Robert Card, 40, is charged with eight counts of murder for the eight identified victims. The charges will likely go up to 18 as the remaining 10 victims are identified, as well, Ross said.

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Here is the timeline in Eastern time of the mass shooting as it unfolded.

6:56 p.m.

The Lewiston-Auburn Emergency Communications Center received a 911 call concerning a shooting inside the Spacetime Recreation bowling alley in Lewison.

7:04 p.m.

The Communications Center received multiple 911 calls about an active shooter inside the Schemengees Bar and Grille Restaurant.

“A large law enforcement response from multiple grounding agencies assisted the Lewiston Police Department in trying to identify who this individual was and what was happening,” Ross said. “As you can imagine, this was a very fast-paced, fast-moving, very fluid scene, very dangerous scene that these guys and girls were going into.”

7:24 p.m.

The Central Maine Healthcare system received the first injured shooting victim at 7:24 p.m. Chief John Alexander said during a press conference on Thursday that the hospitals received 14 patients. The 14th patient arrived 45 minutes after the first. All the patients were brought by first responders or by ambulances, he said.

8 p.m.

The Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office confirmed it was investigating two active shooter incidents. The office released photos of a person of interest in a post to Facebook.

Those images showed a man walking into what appeared to be a bowling alley holding an assault-style rifle.

8:09 p.m.

Maine State Police released a statement announcing an “active shooter” in Lewiston and asked community members to shelter in place.

“Law enforcement is currently investigating at multiple locations,” state police said in a post on Facebook. “Again please stay off the streets and allow law enforcement to diffuse the situation.”

8:26 p.m.

Auburn, a neighboring city to Lewiston, urged residents in both Auburn and Lewiston to shelter in place in an alert posted to X.

9:17 p.m.

Lewiston police released a photo of a white car considered to be a “vehicle of interest” in the mass shootings on Wednesday night.

10:52 p.m.

Lewiston police announced that the person of interest was Robert Card.

“CARD should be considered armed and dangerous,” according to the post, which included an image of Card. “Please contact law enforcement if you are aware of his whereabouts.”

11:30 p.m.

Authorities located the vehicle of interest, identified as a 2013 white Subaru Outback, in Lisbon, Maine.

“That person through the registration of that vehicle was identified, as been stated earlier, as a Robert Card, born in 1983,” Ross said.

Police held a news conference beginning just after 11:30 p.m., where authorities announced the locating of the vehicle and expanded the shelter-in-place order to Lisbon.

“We have literally hundreds of police officers working around the state of Maine to investigate this case, to locate Mr. Card, who, again, is a person of interest, and a person of interest only,” Maine Department of Safety Commissioner Mike Sauschuck said at the time.

Oct. 26 — 3:13 a.m.

Maine State Police extended the shelter-in-place order to Bowdoin.

“Please stay inside your homes while more than 100 investigators, both local and federal work to locate Robert Card who is a person of interest in the Lewiston shootings,” state police said in a post on Facebook.

10:30 a.m.

Maine State Police, Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME), and other law enforcement figures held a press conference.

Ross and Mills confirmed that 18 people were killed and 13 people were injured. Seven people were killed at Sparetime Recreation, one woman and six men. Eight people were killed at Schemengees Bar, seven men inside the establishment and one man outside. Three people were transported along with the injured to the hospital but died from their wounds.

Eight patients remain in the hospital, Alexander said. Three of those patients are in critical condition, and five are in stable condition.

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“The full weight of my administration is behind law enforcement efforts to capture the person of interest, Robert Card, to hold whoever’s responsible for this atrocity accountable under the full force of state and federal law and to seek full justice for the victims and their families,” Mills said.

This timeline will be updated as more details are known.