A police hunt into a mass shooting suspect is continuing as cops warn the 40-year-old is “capable of hiding for a long time”.
Robert Card, a deer hunter, is the subject of an enormous Maine manhunt after a shooting spree left 18 people dead and another 13 wounded.
Rick Goddard, 44, lives less than a mile down the road from Card’s parents in Bowdoin.
He told The Post: “It’s his stomping ground. I mean, he grew up here. He knows the area really well.
“He’s capable of hiding for a long time if he doesn’t want to be caught.
“There’s a lot of places you can be in the woods and never be seen.
“It’s really dense, thick woods. If you know the area, there’s a lot of places you can hide … you could never see something like that from an airplane or helicopter.
“The trees are so close together, you can barely walk through them.
Members of the FBI Evidence Response Team and State Police gather at the site of a mass shooting at Schemengees Bar and Grille
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“It’s so thick, you can barely see 10 feet into the woods.
“If I was going to hide, that’s what I would do. I would hide in some place like that.”
Card is also a skilled outdoorsman and trained with the US Army Reserve as a marksman.
He enlisted in the American army in 2002 and is a petroleum supply specialist.
Police in the Pine Tree State revealed Card walked into the Just-In-Time Recreation Bowl in Lewiston and opened fire with an assault rifle, killing seven people.
Members of the FBI Evidence Response Team gather at the site of a mass shooting at Schemengees Bar and Grille on October 26
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He later struck at at Schemengees Bar & Grille about two miles away, killing seven more inside the establishment and one outside.
Three more people who were wounded at the two sites were pronounced dead at area hospitals.
A further 13 sustained injuries, including a 10-year-old girl.
Federal, state, county and local authorities are desperately trying to locate Card.
Maine State Police Colonel William Ross said: “We believe this is someone who should not be approached.”
