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LEWISTON, Maine — Central Maine's tight-knit deaf community was hit particularly hard by this week’s mass shootings. After a gunman opened fire at a bowling alley, he next took aim at Schemengees Bar and Grille, where several victims had been competing in a cornhole tournament. Of the 18 people killed Wednesday night, at least four of them were deaf, loved ones have said. 'Our ...
” Elizabeth Seal said she's been told her husband reacted quickly to the attack and tried to take cover. 'It seems like when the shooting happened, everybody responded very quickly,' she said. 'They started running for an escape, to hide. The friend told me that my husband got down and was army crawling, trying to hide under one of the cornhole boards just for some sort of protection.
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