Business owners thought they would never reopen after Maine's deadliest shooting. Then support grew

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Immediately after Maine’s deadliest mass shooting, the owners of the bowling alley and the bar in Lewiston where the gunman killed a total of 18 people were certain their doors were closed for good. Yet as time passed following the Oct. 25 shooting, they came to the same conclusion. They had to reopen.

, the owners of the bowling alley and the bar in Lewiston where the gunman killed a total of 18 people were certain their doors were closed for good.In interviews with The Associated Press, Just-In-Time Recreation co-owner Samantha Juray and Schemengees Bar & Grille co-owner Kathy Lebel spoke about their businesses,Kathy Lebel, the owner of Schemengees Bar & Grille, which is currently closed after the mass shootings, stands for a portrait in Lewiston, Maine.

“He looks at me and says, ‘We’re not going to buy that,’” Lebel says. “I’m like, ‘Are you kidding me? I’m going to buy it. I don’t know what it takes, but I want that pool hall.’” After her husband was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease 12 years ago, Lebel became increasingly responsible for the bar's day-to-day management. She also had her own health crisis, surviving inflammatory breast cancer.

“We're like Americana. A lot of small towns, we're the place where everybody goes to hang out,” said Frank DeSocio, the association’s executive director.have occurred have taken various approaches afterward. In Aurora, Colorado, a movie theater where 12 people were killed in 2012The Jurays hope to reopen in March or April. They also plan to keep the name. When they bought the bowling alley nearly three years ago, the owner was days away from shutting it down.

“I ran up to the kids and I got behind them,” Giberti says. “And I and got them back through the door, and as I turned to go through the door is when he shot me.”

 

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