The sheriff said that the threats prompted an alert to all law enforcement agencies in the state, weeks before the gunman, an Army reservist, fatally shot 18 people this week.
Tag: Maine
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‘Lewiston Strong’: After Mass Shooting, Residents Emerge With Grit
After two long days of being locked down amid the manhunt for a gunman who killed 18 people, the small city in Maine started to come back to life, forever changed.
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After Shooting, Maine Senators in the Spotlight on Guns
The shooting in Lewiston that left 18 dead prompted the town’s conservative Democratic representative to embrace an assault weapons ban, but Senators Susan Collins and Angus King are still resisting.
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Stephen King: The Maine Shootings Show We Are Out of Things to Say
Every mass shooting is a gut-punch; but such things can and will happen anywhere and everywhere in this locked-and-loaded country.