A U.S. Army reservist is on the run and wanted by police as of Thursday, Oct. 26, after multiple mass shootings left at least 18 people dead in Lewiston, Maine on Wednesday night. 

An arrest warrant for eight counts of murder has been issued for Robert Card, 40, who is considered armed and extremely dangerous. The counts against Card will increase once the 10 other victims killed at Schemengees Bar and Grille and the bowling alley Sparetime Recreation are identified, police say. 

President Joe Biden on Thursday urged residents where police are searching for the suspect to heed the warning of local law enforcement. Police have told people to stay locked indoors until the suspect is found. Banks and schools in the area of Lewiston and Lisbon, where a vehicle related to the suspect was located, were also closed Thursday. 

Law enforcement warns anyone who sees Card to not approach him and to call 911. 

New U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a conservative evangelical Christian elected on Wednesday, said Thursday “We’re really, really hopeful and prayerful. Prayer is appropriate at a time like this, that the evil can end and the senseless violence can stop.” 

Card was committed to a mental health facility for two weeks in July after reportedly hearing voices and threatening to ‘shoot up’ the military base after commanders in the Army Reserve’s 3rd Battalion, 304th Infantry Regiment in Saco, became alarmed.

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