‘Come Out With Your Hands Up!’ FBI Has Maine Shooting Suspect’s House Surrounded in Stunning Scene on Live TV
FBI agents surrounded the home of Maine mass shooting suspect Robert Card and shouted instructions over a megaphone in dramatic footage broadcast live on CNN.
Card is the fugitive being sought in the mass shooting at two locations in Lewiston, Maine Wednesday night that has left 18 people dead and 50 or more injured.
A statewide manhunt followed, and on Thursday night’s edition of CNN’s OutFront a dramatic scene unfolded shortly after 7 p.m. Anchor Erin Burnett tossed to CNN correspondent Brian Todd live in Lewiston, where FBI agents had surrounded Card’s house.
As Todd described the scene, megaphone instructions like “Come out with your hands up!” could be heard. It was not known if Card or anyone else was in the home:
BURNETT: Tim and Rob, stay with me here. I want to go to Brian Todd, because he is near the home where Card was known to last be. A lot more police activity and FBI activity right now since they returned to the home.
Brian, I know we’ve got issues with lighting. But, you can see, tell us what you’re seeing right now.
BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Right, Erin. The reason you have issues of lighting is because police are coming to all media positions where I am and told us to turn off lights because you’re creating a dangerous situation for law enforcement if we had our lights on.
So, our lights are off. I’m going to step away from the camera. What we have just seen is multiple law enforcement vehicles coming up to the last known address of the suspect Robert Card. It is to the left of where those flashing lights are and kind of between the two sets of flashing lights into the left. I know you can’t see anything between those two, but that is where it is.
There are a whole bunch of FBI and other law enforcement evidence trucks of just pulled in here. Of course, earlier, our team witnessed FBI and other law enforcement approach the house and used flash bangs to try to, you know, enter the house. That standard procedure according to our Miller, and Josh Carroll, that — excuse me, Josh Campbell. That is almost standard procedure in any case where they try to approach a house and they’re not sure whether the suspect might be in there or not.
They used flash bangs to try and just, obviously, for the shock effect in for the speed, to try and get into the house. After that, they were their processing staff, and then a bunch of law enforcement vehicles left, and of course now, they have just come back.
So, that’s what you’re seeing. There is someone speaking on a loudspeaker, I can’t quite make out what he’s saying.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Walk outside with your hands up.
TODD: Okay. One of my colleagues said he said walk outside (AUDIO GAP)
So, Erin, that’s — that is what I can tell you what we’re witnessing right now. BURNETT: All right. Let’s keep these pictures up while you’re with us, if we can, while you can.
Tim, walk outside with your hands up, mass law enforcement, flash bangs. They obviously think he’s in there right now.
CLEMENTE: They think he’s somewhere right there. It does not mean he’s necessarily in the house, the fact that they’re moving to the left side of the house as the reporter just stated, might be that there’s a wooded area or a shed or something. And it’s possible that they saw movement, heard something, and so they’re acting as if it’s him, even if it might be a dog or another person. They have to treat it as if it is armed and dangerous individual right there.
BURNETT: Brian, is there anything else that they have said? I haven’t heard the loudspeaker again?
You’re under arrest.
TODD: Yeah, Erin.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You’re under arrest, come out.
TODD: Okay, one person, one of the loud speaker, one of the people said, you’re under arrest, come out with your hands up.
We also saw law enforcement personnel fanning into the field near his house to the left there before all this is unfolding. Now, look, you can see, they’ve got a spotlight on a window in the house. You can see that no. They have just said come out with your hands up, you are under arrest.
BURNETT: All right. We’re moving the camera over. I see that spotlight. Our viewers can see that spotlight on the house.
TODD: Yeah, yeah. One person was just heard saying we don’t anyone else getting hurt.
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