Maine mass shooting leaves 18 dead; shelter-in-place orders extended as manhunt expands
When a man with an assault rifle stormed into Schemengees Bar & Grille in Maine, Joseph Walker grabbed a long-bladed knife. He wanted to save lives. He didn’t stand a chance.
Moments later, he was dead. Seventeen others would also die in a mass shooting that unfolded in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday night, prompting extended shelter-in-place orders while a widespread, urgent hunt for the gunman continued. Thirteen people were also injured in the shooting.
That’s the heartbreaking version of events that Walker’s father, Leroy Walker Sr., said the family had learned from Maine State Police more than 14 hours after the gunman opened fire, first in a bowling alley filled with children and then in the bar about four miles away.
“My son has always been a person that would intervene when there was trouble,” the elder Walker, 74, recalled in a phone interview with the Los Angeles Times. He said the two of them often went to clubs and pool halls, where alcohol sometimes led to fights.
“We knew how to,
