Elite Border Patrol BORTAC agents have joined a massive manhunt alongside FBI and hundreds of state and local officers for suspect Robert Card, following two mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine, that left 18 dead Wednesday.
Plainclothes police officers who were training nearby when a gunman opened fire inside a Maine bowling alley on Wednesday night were the first to respond to the calls for help. On Friday evening, Maine Public Safety Commissioner Mike Sauschuck said that four plainclothes officers were the first to respond to the shooting rampage at Sparetime Recreation bowling in Lewiston, Maine 'about a minute-and-a-half' after hearing calls for help.
Sauschuck explained that the four plainclothes officers did not have their radios and were not in uniform at the time of the shooting. Sauschuck said that when they arrived they 'addressed the threat and cleared the building.' 'They hear it as they're at the range. They respond to the threat and address it immediately and clear the building,' Sauschuck said. The Maine commissioner said that at 7:01 p.m. eight more officers arrived at Sparetime, and at approximately 7:08 p.m.
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