{"id":97295,"date":"2023-10-30T12:43:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T17:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=97295"},"modified":"2023-10-30T12:43:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T17:43:05","slug":"97295","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=97295","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Maine shooting: Lewiston police were warned about Robert Card weeks before massacre<\/a>
\nPolice were alerted to ‘veiled threats’ by Card, a US Army reservist<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mass murderer Robert Card, who killed at least 18 people in a gruesome massacre in Lewiston, Maine, Wednesday, was reportedly on state authorities’ radars as early as mid-September.<\/p>\n

Card gunned down at least 18 people and wounded 13, after opening fire on a bowling alley and bar in Lewiston, causing the worst mass shooting in the Pine Tree State’s history. He was found dead Friday night after a two-day search, with officials concluding that he shot himself in the head.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement officials told the Associated Press that they were alerted to “veiled threats” by Card, a U.S. Army reservist, after he threatened soldiers at a southern Maine National Guard Base in Saco.<\/p>\n

When authorities visited Card’s home and couldn’t find him, they dropped their investigation.<\/p>\n

“We added extra patrols, we did that for about two weeks,” Saco Police Chief Jack Clements explained. “The guy never showed up.”<\/p>\n

“Never came in contact with this guy, never received any phone calls from the reserve center saying, \u2018Hey, we got somebody who was causing a problem,\u2019” he added. “We never got anything.”<\/p>\n

Sagadahoc County Sheriff Joel Merry alerted every law enforcement agency in Maine after the Army Reserve informed his department, but also could not find Card after a welfare check to his residence.<\/p>\n

“We couldn\u2019t locate him,” Merry said.<\/p>\n

The FBI told AP that they were not aware of suspicious activity from Card, explaining they “did not have nor did [we] receive any tips or information concerning Robert Card.”<\/p>\n

“[The background check system] was not provided with or in possession of any information that would have prohibited Card from a lawful firearm purchase,” the agency added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maine shooting: Lewiston police were warned about Robert Card weeks before massacre Police were alerted to ‘veiled threats’ by Card, a US Army reservist Mass murderer Robert Card, who killed at least 18 people in a gruesome massacre in Lewiston, Maine, Wednesday, was reportedly on state authorities’ radars as early as mid-September. Card gunned down … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goobermint","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97296,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97295\/revisions\/97296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}