December 30, 2023 / By mobanmarket
DIX HILLS, NY — Residents in parts of Maine are in lockdown after a mass shooting Wednesday at a bowling alley and a bar. Police say 18 people were killed and 13 others were injured.
It’s an all too familiar feeling for Long Island’s Linda Beigel Schulman, whose son Scott Beigel was killed in the Parkland, Florida mass shooting.
“I know what I went through and how I felt,” Beigel Schulman told Patch. “It’s like feeling it with them again.”
Upon seeing the news reports Wednesday night about multiple shootings in Lewiston, Maine, Beigel Schulman, of Dix Hills, was just home from work and ready to prepare dinner.
“It just takes over,” she said. “I can’t eat. Your body goes into that mode of where I was when I going through it.”
Her son was considered heroic for acting as a shield to protect his students at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre in 2018. Scott Beigel was among 17 people murdered.
Unlike that shooting, a manhunt was still in progress Thursday afternoon for the suspect Robert Card, Maine state police said.
This is the 565th mass shooting in the US this year.
“What are we waiting for?” she asked about the urgent need for gun safety legislation. “I’ve said it since day one. It’s common sense. Why are we fighting everyone’s right to be safe, let alone everyone’s right to live without fear.”
While multiple agencies comb the area for the alleged gunman, Beigel Schulman only wants to see one outcome.
“I want him dead so that the families of the people that he has murdered or harmed can move on,” she said. “They don’t understand, until time goes by, what it’s like to bring him to trial and to have to deal with it.”
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