Canada Border Services Agency Alerts Guards to Look out for Wanted Maine Gunman

A police officer walks along a rural road during a manhunt for the suspect of Wednesday's mass shootings in Lisbon, Maine, on Oct. 26, 2023. The Canadian Press/AP-Robert F. Bukaty

The Canada Border Services Agency has issued an “armed and dangerous” alert to its officers stationed along the Canada-U.S. border, warning them to be on the lookout for the man suspected of fatally shooting at least 18 people in southern Maine.

The shootings were reported on Oct. 25 night in Lewiston, about 260 kilometres southwest of the New Brunswick border.