2023-10-26 05:34:00
This image shows a victim on a stretcher being loaded into an ambulance by first responders in Lewiston, Maine. (Credit: Nichoel Wyman Arel)
A witness said she saw “definitely more than a dozen” people leaving the bowling alley where one of the shootings occurred in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday night.
Nichoel Wyman Arel described a large police and ambulance presence outside Sparetime Recreation following the deadly incident. Arel said he saw officers frisking people as they left the bowling alley.
Arel was driving home with a friend from Girl Scouts when they came across the tragic scene. She saw a person who seemed to have “blood everywhere” but she couldn’t tell if they themselves were hurt. “It’s all blurry. I wasn’t really picking up much detail,” Arel said.
Arel also said he saw children at the scene with their families.
“Yeah, there were kids, that’s… looking back, like that was probably the hardest part, seeing… just families, families walking out of there and knowing that that happened there while they were probably just trying to have a family night.” “Arel told CNN.
Arel’s young daughter was with her when she witnessed the aftermath of the shooting.
“She was definitely scared. She started crying and said, ‘This is a scary world we live in, Mom.’ I’m like, ‘I know.'”
When he got home, Arel said he locked the house, including the windows. She owns a firearm and, she says, it made her daughter “feel better knowing I had it with me.”
Arel said her daughter “was afraid that someone would come into our house.”
Lewiston residents are told to continue sheltering in place.
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