Victims of the deadly mass shooting in Maine include a 10-year-old girl who was wounded when a gunman entered a bowling alley with an assault rifle and started shooting in Lewiston Maine on Wednesday night, authorities said.

In all, 18 people were killed and 13 others were injured at the Sparetime Recreation Bowl, which was hosting a youth league, and Schemengees Bar and Grille — with a massive manhunt now underway for “armed and dangerous” gunman Robert Card.

“I never thought I’d grow and get a bullet in my leg,” Zoey Hutchinson told ABC News just hours after she was grazed by a bullet as she and her mother took cover from the gunfire at Sparetime Recreation.

“Why? Why do people do this?” the little girl asked.

“I was more worried about, like, am I going to live? Am I going to make it out of here,” she said of the moment the shooter opened fire.

“When I turned around, I saw the shooter like right behind me,” Zoey’s mother, Meghan Hutchinson, told the outlet.

During a press briefing Thursday, Maine Gov. Janet Mills confirmed the 18 casualties, while police said Card is still on the run.

The mother and daughter barricaded themselves with a few others in a storage area of the bowling alley, she explained.

“This attack strikes at the very heart of who we are,” Mills said during a press briefing. “This is a dark day for me.”

Maine State Police Col. William Ross said Card has been charged with eight counts of murder — the number of victims so far identified — and is expected to face 18 counts when all of the dead are eventually identified.

Fifteen died at the two shooting scenes while three others were pronounced dead at area hospitals, Ross said.

Leroy Walker, the father of Schemengees’ bar manager, told NBC he is convinced his son is among the dead.

“And I don’t know, telling you the truth, what kind of night this is going to be from now until tomorrow when I wake up to the true facts that my son is dead — and I know he’s dead,” he told the outlet.

Leroy Walker, the father of Schemengees’ bar manager, told NBC he is convinced his son is among the dead.

“I know it as well as I know I’m standing here telling you because he’s not here and he’s not at any other hospital and he’s not running the streets or he would have called us, because he manages Schemengees, so I know he was there.”

Mills said she had spoken to President Joe Biden and other federal officials, and said flags will be flown at half-mast throughout the nation for five days to commemorate the tragedy.

“I love this city just like I love the whole state,” Mills told reporters. “This city did not deserve this terrible assault on its citizens, on its peace of mind.

“No city does, no state, no people,” she said.

Card is presumed armed and dangerous and the public in two counties have been told to shelter in place.

This is a developing story please check back for updates

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