As is the case in so many American communities scarred by this kind of carnage, family members of victims have begun calling for stricter gun laws.
Snow accumulates outside a restaurant at a makeshift memorial for the victims of last month's mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, on Dec. 5.
Strout, 42, was among the dead. The last picture on Strout's cell phone, recovered from his body, was of his dad, holding a pool cue not long before that night turned so dark. Now Bernard finds himself in the role of activist, pushing to restrict access to the kind of weapon that killed his son.The gunman, Army reservist Robert Card, who took his own life at the end of a two-day manhunt, had several weapons that police.
On the night of the shootings, Walker's son, Joe, was working as the manager at Schemengees. A corn hole tournament was underway, and a few people were playing pool when the killer entered and opened fire.When news of the attack broke, Walker launched a desperate effort to learn if his son had survived.
"I am struck by how many times I've heard, 'We never thought it would happen here,'"said Margaret Craven, a Democratic state representative from Lewiston, referring to the shock that many people in Maine have expressed about the killings."I mean, it's happening everywhere," she said.
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