Manhunt for Maine shooter kept them apart. Now they can finally come together to grieve
LEWISTON, Maine — In a small park along the mighty Androscoggin River, Leroy Walker Sr. stood in a neon yellow jacket at the base of a bell tower, his white hair thinning at the top of his head. He greeted family after family, exchanging hugs with some parents, as children set off into the candyland awaiting them at Auburn's annual trick-or-treating event.
"Good luck — you'll fill that bucket," Walker, an Auburn City Council member, said to a young boy dressed as a dinosaur.
From afar, Sunday looked and sounded like any other bone-chilling Halloween in Maine: "Ghostbusters" played over speakers while children dressed as Pokemon, Buzz Lightyear, scarecrows, Dalmatians and more loaded their pumpkin buckets and candy bags full of sugar.
Yet across the river in Auburn's sister city of Lewiston, workers in hazmat suits and
