New documents show Lewiston mass shooting suspect Robert Card was delusional and are revealing a possible motive behind his rampage.
Law enforcemnt officers gather outside Schemengees Bar and Grille in the aftermath of a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. New documents show Lewiston mass shooting suspect Robert Card was delusional and are revealing a possible motive behind his rampage, which left 18 people dead, and more than a dozen injured.
In other documents, Card's son told police that paranoia about strangers calling him a pedophile was an ongoing problem and the reason he was institutionalized this summer.Documents show law enforcement in Maine were warned multiple times about the Lewiston gunman's deteriorating mental health and fears he could commit a mass shooting.through a public records request, show the Sagadahoc County Sheriff's Office was reached out to by Card's family back in May.
"Their plan was to sit down with Robert in the near future and see if they could get him to open up about what has been going on," the responding deputy wrote."We never had any dealings with Robert Card before this," Sagadahoc County Sheriff Joel Merry told the I-Team Tuesday. "There are many different types of threats, many different types of situations that we get called to. Each one is treated differently. I don't know if there's any one standard format.
After he began acting erratically, Card was taken to a local psychiatric hospital in New York for evaluation.
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