The New York Times: ‘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.
Reporter: Jenna Russell | Photo Editor: Heather Casey
People delivered flowers in honor of the victims of the Lewiston mass shooting. Signs that read “Lewiston Strong” popped up across the city.
Law enforcement officers gather on the street outside Schemengees Bar & Grill where a gunman opened fire the night before in Lewiston, ME.
Signs indicate that a 7/11 is closed across the street from Central Maine Medical Center.
A Maine State Police Evidence Response Team truck bypasses a barricade to reach Just-In-Time Recreation where a gunman opened fire the night before in Lewiston, ME.
Jeremy Hiltz, 45, of Lewiston, stands in front of a banner made by men at an addiction treatment center to show solidarity with the victims of Wednesday’s shooting.
A member of the press adjusts a microphone on a podium ahead of a press conference at Lewiston City Hall.
Paper hearts hang on trees as a show of support for the victims of the shooting that claimed 18 lives in Lewiston, ME.
The Seal family poses for a portrait in their home in Lisbon, ME. The day before, husband and father Joshua Seal, was killed by a gunman while at Schemengees Bar & Grille during a corn hole tournament.
Members of the Seal familys’ names are spelled out in the home of Elizabeth Seal, 35, the day after her husband, Joshua Seal, was killed by a gunman during a cornhole tournament at Schemengees Bar & Grille.
Members the press wait ahead of a press conference Lewiston City Hall.
Birds fly over Lincoln St., where Schemengees Bar & Grill is located up the road, two days after a gunman killed eighteen people in the bar and a bowling alley in Lewiston, ME.
Helicopters fly over Lewiston the morning after a gunman killed eighteen people in a bar and bowling alley in Lewiston, ME. Residents of multiple towns in Maine were under shelter-in-place orders early Thursday as the police continued an overnight hunt for the suspect.
Members of the press gather the evening that the body Robert Card, the gunman who killed eighteen people in Lewiston, was recovered, ending a three-day manhunt.
Memorials for the victims of the shootings that claimed eighteen lives sit down the road from one of the shooting sites, Schemengees Bar & Grille Restaurant, in Lewiston, ME on Nov. 1, 2023. One week after the shooting, the community came together for the postponed Battle of the Bridge rivalry game between Lewiston High School and Edward Little High School.
Darleen Michalec, 45, and Megan Vozzella, 38, pose for a portrait in Lewiston, ME on Nov. 2, 2023. Vozzella’s husband Stephen Vozella was one of the four members of the deaf community killed during a weekly cornhole tournament at Schemengees Bar & Grille last Wednesday. Michalec and Mrs. Vozzella are both members of the tight knit deaf community in Maine and attended Governor Baxter School for the Deaf, formerly known as Maine School for the Deaf.
Lewiston High School guidance counselor and football mother Lucy Brown-Lepore, 50, leads people in attendance in a cheer during the Battle of the Bridge rivalry game between Lewiston High School and Edward Little High School in Lewiston, ME.
A group of people, including a man who survived the shooting at Schemengees Bar and Grille one week prior, pray under a cross at the Battle of the Bridge rivalry game between Lewiston High School and Edward Little High School in Lewiston, ME.
Lewiston High School’s Blue Devils celebrate winning the Battle of the Bridge rivalry game between Lewiston High School and Edward Little High School in Lewiston, ME.
The moon is seen above a Lewiston Strong sign after Lewiston High School’s Blue Devils won the Battle of the Bridge rivalry game against Edward Little High School while people clean up signs in Lewiston, ME.