Maine officials revealed that mass shooting suspect Robert Card’s body was discovered in a trailer located in an overflow lot at a recycling center.

The update came in a press briefing held Saturday morning.

Card was found dead two days after gunning down 18 people in Lewiston. The discovery allowed Maine residents to “breathe a collective sigh of relief,” Sen. Susan Collins said Friday.

“Tonight, Mainers can breathe a collective sigh of relief thanks to the brave first responders who worked night and day to find this killer,” the Republican said in a statement, according to the Sun-Journal.

“When President Biden called me this evening to tell me the perpetrator of the heinous attacks in Lewiston had been found, we both expressed our profound appreciation for the courage and determination of these brave men and women,” she added.

“I want to also thank Gov. Mills for her steadfast leadership, the health care workers who cared for the victims, the city officials who have worked tirelessly, and the people of Maine who came together in the wake of this attack.”

Media reports earlier — combined with social media posts by victims’ relatives — had identified 16 of the people who have died in the shootings at Just-In-Time Recreation and Schemengees Bar & Grille, plus two who were wounded:

• Bob Violette, 76, a longtime children’s bowling instructor, was working with a youth league when the shooter walked into the bowling alley
• Joseph Walker, bar manager at Schemengees Bar & Grille, died trying to stop the gunman, his father told NBC News
• Tricia Asselin, 53, worked part-time at Just-In-Time Recreation, but was bowling for fun when the shooting took place, her brother told CNN
• Steven Vozzella, who just got married last year, was at Schemengees bar for a cornhole tournament for deaf adults, his family told ABC
• Bill Bracket was also gunned down at the bar cornhole tournament, his family told ABC, and was remembered by a friend on Facebook who wrote, “I’ll never forget the laughs I had you in when I was trying to learn some sign language at cornhole.”
• Bryan MacFarlane, 40, a member of Lewiston’s deaf community, was taking part in the tournament after recently moving back to his native Maine, according to CNN. 
• Michael Deslauriers II and Jason Walker had been bowling with their wives, and their “several young children,” whom the two husbands protected before charging at the gunman, Deslauriers’ father wrote on Facebook
• Bill Young and his 14-year-old son Aaron were fatally shot at Just-In-Time while out with their bowling league, Bill’s brother told Reuters.
• Arthur Strout, a 42-year-old father of five, was killed at Schemengees, his father Arthur Barnard told WCVB.
• Tommy Conrad, 34, was a manager at the bowling alley and is survived by his 9-year-old daughter, WMYW reported.
• Joshua Seal worked as an American Sign Language interpreter for the Pine Tree Society, his wife, Elizabeth, said on Facebook. 
• Peyton Brewer-Ross, a father of a 2-year-old girl, was killed at Schemengees Bar and Grille, according to a CNN report.
• Ron Morin was remembered by his family as an upbeat guy — and a common sight at Taboo Hair Design in Lewiston, where his mom has worked for more than years, the Bangor Daily News reported. 
• Maxx Hathaway was killed at Schemengees and was remembered as a “goofy, down to earth person, loved to joke around and always had an uplifting attitude,” his sister wrote on GoFundMe.
• Wounded: Zoey Hutchinson, 10, who spoke to ABC News the morning after she was grazed by a bullet and took cover with her mother at Just-In-Time bowling alley.
• Wounded: Justin Karcher, 23, who is on a ventilator in the ICU, where doctors have to “keep resuscitating him” following emergency surgery, his mother told the Washington Post. Four years ago, Karcher witnessed his father die “in front of him,” after being gunned down in a Walmart parking lot, Jessica Karcher said.

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