A narrative picture story based on daily coverage of general or breaking news that is of primary interest to the local audience in a media organization or the photographer’s primary geographic market. In other words, a hometown story.
The mass shootings that tore through Lewiston, Maine on October 25, 2023 left 18 dead, at least a dozen wounded, and a city shattered. It sent residents into a multi-day lockdown, as the chief suspect, Robert Card, remained at large, and obliterated any assumptions that a place like this — calm, quiet, removed from big-city crowds — was immune to this kind of violence. The shootings, which happened at a popular bar and bowling alley, nearly matched the total number of homicides that the state typically sees in an entire year. And here — in a city so close-knit that some workers at Central Maine Medical Center knew the victims they were caring for in the shooting’s aftermath — the damage has been profoundly personal. The deadliest shooting in 2023 and one of the worst in recent US history, it left Lewiston, a community of 37,000, left to pick up the pieces.
The mass shootings that tore through Lewiston, Maine on October 25, 2023 left 18 dead, at least a dozen wounded, and a city shattered. It sent residents into a multi-day lockdown, as the chief suspect, Robert Card, remained at large, and obliterated any assumptions that a place like this — calm, quiet, removed from big-city crowds — was immune to this kind of violence. The shootings, which happened at a popular bar and bowling alley, nearly matched the total number of homicides that the state typically sees in an entire year. And here — in a city so close-knit that some workers at Central Maine Medical Center knew the victims they were caring for in the shooting’s aftermath — the damage has been profoundly personal. The deadliest shooting in 2023 and one of the worst in recent US history, it left Lewiston, a community of 37,000, left to pick up the pieces.