Police in N.B. monitoring manhunt in Maine following mass shooting | Globalnews.ca

Police in New Brunswick say they’re monitoring the manhunt across the U.S. border in Maine, as police there search for a suspect in connection to a mass shooting.

Hundreds of police officers have fanned across the state of Maine, following shootings at a bar and bowling alley in the town of Lewiston on Wednesday evening.

News outlets have reported a death toll ranging from 16 to 22, with dozens more wounded.

State and local police have identified Robert R. Card, 40, as a person of interest in the case. Officials have released photographs of a a bearded man in a brown hoodie and jeans at one of the crime scenes, holding what appeared to be a semi-automatic rifle.

Thursday morning, New Brunswick RCMP said they were “aware of the situation in Maine” and were monitoring it “in collaboration with our law enforcement partners.”

Lewiston, ME is located about three-and-a-half hours from either the St. Stephen or Woodstock borders in New Brunswick.

Woodstock Police Chief Gary Forward, who is also the president of the New Brunswick Association of Chiefs of Police, told Global News that “all agencies are aware and working collaboratively in the event any outcome should unfold in the Province.”

“Agencies in New Brunswick will continue to monitor and share information as it is received, while responding accordingly should the need arise,” Forward wrote in an email.

More to come.

— with files from Reuters