FBI are conducting a major search at the home of the Maine mass shooting suspect Robert Card, as the police manhunt passed the 24 hour mark.

A spokesperson for the Maine Department of Public Safety spokesperson previously told CNN that law enforcement is “not positive Robert Card is in this house,” and that police were “simply doing our due diligence.”

Police have been looking for the 40-year-old in conncection with two separate shootings that took place on Wednesday evening in nearby Lewiston – which left 18 people dead and 13 others injured.

On Thursday afternoon local time multiple police vehicles were seen in the vicinity of Card’s home in the vicinity of Bowdoin, with CNN reporting a series of loud bangs.

There was speculation that the noise could have been flash bangs used by police in stand-offs with armed suspects. Shortly after, a video emerged of law enforcement outside a property with a loudhailer heard to announce: “FBI! Open the door!”

But around 8.45pm local time tactical police vehicles were pictured moving in convoy away from the property.

On Wednesday night, a gunman opened fire in the Just-in-Time Recreation bowling alley and then the Schemengees Bar & Grille at around 7pm, with terrifying surveillance footage grabs showing the shooter armed with a rifle.

An intensive manhunt for Card began and he was formally identified as the suspect in the now active homicide investigation during a press conference on Thursday morning. Residents across Maine have been sheltered in place since Wednesday night.

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