Police surround family home of 'armed and dangerous' US shooting suspect

Police on Thursday surrounded the family home of the man accused of gunning down 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in the US state of Maine.
It was not immediately known if 40-year-old suspect Robert Card was inside the house. The action came 24 hours after Card allegedly went on a rampage in the small northeastern city of Lewiston, culminating in the deadliest mass shooting this year in America.
Thirteen people were also wounded. Law enforcement surrounded the Card family home in Bowdoin, near Lewiston, sending up drones and a helicopter and ordering journalists gathered nearby to switch off their lights. A wide area around Lewiston was locked down during the tense search as authorities erected roadblocks, ordered schools and businesses closed, and told residents to stay indoors.
The shooting is one of the deadliest in the US since 2017, when a gunman opened fire on a crowded music festival in Las Vegas, killing 60 people. Mass shootings are alarmingly common in the United States, a country with more guns than people. The country has recorded at least 565 mass shootings this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.