The suspected Maine shooter had a 20-year career in the U.S. Army.
New details about the U.S. Army career of suspected Maine shooter Robert Card have been revealed.Card, who is still at large as of Friday morning, is the suspect in the fatal shooting of 18 people in Lewiston, Maine on Wednesday evening. He allegedly opened fire on a bowling alley and separate restaurant, committing the worst mass shooting in the U.S. this year.Card, 40, is an Army reservist and assigned to a training facility in Saco, Maine.
Card was due to retire from the army this year, according to a post from his now deleted Facebook account earlier this year.Two senior law enforcement officials said that Card's unit commanders sent him for psychiatric treatment during the summer out of concern for threats he made to the base and his claims of hearing voices, NBC News reported.Card underwent approximately two weeks of inpatient psychiatric treatment before being discharged.
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