The Canada Border Services Agency issued Thursday an B次元官网网址渁rmed and dangerousB次元官网网址� alert to officers stationed along the Canada-U.S. border, warning them to be on the lookout for the man suspected of fatally shooting 18 people in southern Maine.

The shootings were reported Wednesday night in Lewiston, about 260 kilometres southwest of the New Brunswick border.

A police bulletin identified the suspect as 40-year-old Robert Card, a firearms instructor believed to be in the U.S. Army Reserve and assigned to a training facility in Saco, Maine.

As a massive search continued for Card, residents of southern Maine were told to lock their doors and remain inside.

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The Canadian border agency said its B次元官网网址淎rmed and Dangerous B次元官网网址� Firearms lookoutB次元官网网址� alert was sent to all its officers through an internal system, and the agency added that all entry points along the Canada-U.S. border remain open.

In Calais, Maine, which shares three border entry points in and near St. Stephen in southwestern New Brunswick, U.S. officers have set up checkpoints on the American side to screen vehicles before they enter Canada, said Allan MacEachern, the mayor of St. Stephen.

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Meanwhile, the horror of the shootings was reverberating in Nova Scotia, where residents were recalling how a man disguised as a Mountie fatally shot 22 people three years ago, the worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history.

On Facebook, Nova Scotia resident Nick Beaton posted an image of MaineB次元官网网址檚 coat of arms. BeatonB次元官网网址檚 33-year-old pregnant wife, Kristen, was shot to death on April 19, 2020, as she sat in her car in Debert, N.S.

In response to BeatonB次元官网网址檚 post, Jennifer Zahl Bruland posted images of three broken hearts. Her father and stepmother B次元官网网址� John Zahl and Joanne Thomas B次元官网网址� were shot in their retirement home in Portapique, N.S., on the night of April 18, 2020.

The public inquiry that investigated the Nova Scotia murders determined that the shooter, Gabriel Wortman, had smuggled three semi-automatic guns from Maine. Two were handguns he obtained from a friend in Houlton, Maine, and the third was a rifle he bought with the help of a U.S. citizen attending a gun show in Maine.

The final report from the public inquiry, released in March of this year, described how red flags about the killer failed to stop any of his illegal activities during his 21 border crossings between Woodstock, N.B., and Houlton between 2016 and 2020.

In New Brunswick, the RCMP issued a brief statement Thursday saying the police force was monitoring the situation in collaboration with Canadian and U.S. partners.

B次元官网网址淥ur thoughts are with the citizens of Maine, and everyone affected by this event,B次元官网网址� RCMP Cpl. Hans Ouellette said in the statement.

Maine shares 18 official entry points with New Brunswick, and another six with Quebec, according to CBSAB次元官网网址檚 website.

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