Johan, 32, was told to lock the doors after the mass shooting

In the American city of Lewiston, the hunt is on for the perpetrator after the mass shooting.

According to the police, the perpetrator is armed and dangerous and residents are asked to stay indoors.

“Suddenly we received an alarm that the doors were to be locked due to an active shooter,” says Johan Bergström, 32.

At 7 p.m., the first reports of the shooting came in the town of Lewiston in Maine. At a bar and one in a bowling alley, an assailant had shot several people to death and the hunt for the suspected assailant, Robert Card, 40, began. According to US media, at least 22 people have been killed.

Swede Johan Bergström lives just kilometers from the shooting. He moved to the USA over 10 years ago, but originally comes from Sundsvall.

– I live only a few kilometers from the shooting, says Johan Bergström.

Was told to lock the doors

– I was at a gas station just outside Lewiston when we heard that something was going on. We saw police cars driving by. I looked at the news and the internet but then there was no information, says Johan Bergström.

A moment later, the alarm came from the authorities – there was an active shooter in the area.

– We received an alarm that the doors were to be locked, says Johan Bergström.

Shut down in the area

Several hours after the shootings, the perpetrator has not yet been arrested.

– Most of the neighbors have turned off all the lights. We only have a small lamp lit in one of the rooms, says Johan.

Johan lives in Sabattus, just outside Lewiston and near Lisbon where the police found a car believed to belong to the suspect Robert Card.

– It is only five kilometers from here. There have been a lot of helicopters and sirens in the area, says Johan Bergström.

Later during the night, however, the helicopters should have moved in towards Lewiston again, says Johan.