According to her sister, Tricia Asselin, 53, passed as a hero while attempting to phone for aid during the horrific shooting that took place on Wednesday in Lewiston, Maine.
Asselin Nichols, Bobbi-Lynn’s younger sister, had a part-time job at a bowling alley called Just-In-Time Recreation, so Bobbi-Lynn joined Asselin to the bowling alley. The shooting then started only a few minutes before 7 o’clock in the evening. It was one of two shootings that took place within a matter of minutes, and between them, they left 18 people passed and 13 more wounded.
A search was still underway as of Thursday afternoon for the suspect, Robert Card, who the police have described as “armed and extremely dangerous.”
Even though it was Asselin’s day off, she invited her sister to join her for a game of bowling nevertheless.
Nichols recounts that while they were bowling, they heard a “loud pop,” but she didn’t know it was a gunshot until she heard the second shot. This occurred while they were in the alley.
She recounts that throughout the whole time they were fleeing, she kept yelling, “I want my sister out of there!” “And she put herself in his way by trying to get help by calling 911 and putting herself in danger.” They call her a hero. My sister is a hero in our family.
Nichols claims that she and a number of other people raced out of the bowling alley at the same time, describing the event as a “stampede.”
“We just wanted to run as far as we could,” she explains. “That was our only goal.”
The moment she stepped outdoors, however, she discovered that her sister was nowhere to be found. According to her account, Asselin was shot as she was pulling out her phone to dial 911.
According to Nichols, “my sister was the most kind, most honest, and most giving person you would ever meet in your life.” “If it were up to her, she would part with her very last dime and give it to you. She would organize fundraising events for persons she had no personal connection to.
Alicia Lachance, Asselin’s mother, tells PEOPLE that her daughter was an athlete and coached minor league in the town of Auburn, Maine.
The fact that Asselin just collected $900 for a breast cancer walk is one of the reasons why Lachance wants her daughter to be recognized for her philanthropic nature.
Nichols, in agreement with Lachance, has said that she would want to do something in remembrance of Asselin, maybe during the breast cancer walk that will take place in 2024.
“I would walk for her,” she says between her sobs. “I would do anything for her.” “If it were up to me, I would do it.”