Areas around Lewiston were nearly deserted Thursday as law enforcement maintained a shelter-in-place order for the city as well as neighboring communities.
Miia Zellner, an artist originally from Central Massachusetts now living in Lewiston, Maine, places a heart-shaped poster on a tree in downtown Lewiston on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023, to offer support for a community reeling from a mass shooting Wednesday. LEWISTON, Maine — Miia Zellner and Hunter Kissam realized something was wrong in their hometown when they heard sirens blaring outside their apartment.
“We didn’t think it was nearly as bad as it was,” Kissam told the Herald Thursday while he was walking down Lisbon Street, a main thoroughfare in downtown Lewiston. “We thought like, okay, somebody got mad at a bar and shot somebody or whatever. And then we heard a shooter. Then we saw headlines with active shooter, and we were not expecting it to be what it was.”Law enforcement armed with long rifles stand at the entrance to Central Maine Medical Center on Thursday, Oct.
Lewiston Police Chief David St. Pierre speaks during a press conference about the mass shooting on Oct. 26, 2023, in Lewiston, Maine. Police are still searching for the suspect in the shooting, Robert Card, who allegedly killed 18 people in two separate locations on Wednesday night. An artist by trade and originally from Central Massachusetts, Zellner decided Thursday to make heart-shaped cutouts from poster board adorned with phrases like “to my community” or “to my friends” to place on light posts throughout downtown Lewiston.
Occasional dog walkers interspersed with people experiencing homelessness slowly meandered through a main park just across the street from City Hall. But the media nearly outnumbered the locals who were venturing into public spaces.
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