ME - Lewiston, Mass Shooting, Multiple Scenes - Oct 2023

[abeaman02]

What do you do?
Turn off all the lights and shelter low on the floor at home?

That's what they told my daughter to do last year while at Michigan State when the shooter was active. Lights off, no sound, low to the ground and away from the doors and windows

 

[ifimmurderedjoedidit]

Eyewitness on CNN is confirming “lots of little kids” and families at the bowling alley.

 

[Madison1905]

What do you do?
Turn off all the lights and shelter low on the floor at home?

As a single female who doesn’t own any weapons and on the first floor of my apartment complex… I would grab my butcher knives, run to my closet, be nonstop shaking in my pants and wishing I had a gun. I cannot imagine the panic everyone there has.

 

[DeDee]

Trained firearm instructor...that is scary

A trained firearm instructor who hears voices in his head is terrifying. Why can't we prevent these shootings by medically treating those with obvious symptoms of critical distress and depression that are among us? Lock them up involuntarily, if necessary.

update:
Card was released from treatment in AUG after 2 weeks of mental health care. The staff needs to reassess their treatments. This is not working out so good for the rest of us.

 

[IzzyBlanche]

If that's the guy, he looks a lot thinner and younger in today's photos than that one LE released.

Does anyone know, was that a driver's license photo or if not, where did it come from?

 

[DeDee]

If that's the guy, he looks a lot thinner and younger in today's photos than that one LE released.

Does anyone know, was that a driver's license photo or if not, where did it come from?

The image I posted of Card came from the local police, Lewiston Police Dept's FB page according to News Center Maine YT.

 

[MassGuy]

If that's the guy, he looks a lot thinner and younger in today's photos than that one LE released.

Does anyone know, was that a driver's license photo or if not, where did it come from?

It is a driver’s license photo. That’s where the initial images of these guys almost always come from too.

 

[steeltowngirl]

It sucks that we have to live like this.

 

[vls12345]

I wonder if he has family in the area. Too many times, after the fact, it's discovered they annihilated their family members (spouse, parents, extended family) before continuing the spree elsewhere. Imo.

 

[MassGuy]

More from John Miller:

Recently lost his job at a recycling plant, which could have been a precipitating stressor.

 

[steeltowngirl]

CNN

shooter lost job at recycling center

 

[MassGuy]

I wonder if he has family in the area. Too many times, after the fact, it's discovered they annihilated their family members (spouse, parents, extended family) before continuing the spree elsewhere. Imo.

He appears to, according to public records. I’m sure they checked on them as soon as he was identified. In addition to what you said, it’s always possible that he would flee there after the fact.

 

[BeginnerSleuther]

A trained firearm instructor who hears voices in his head is terrifying. Why can't we prevent these shootings by medically treating those with obvious symptoms of critical distress and depression that are among us? Lock them up involuntarily, if necessary.

update:
Card was released from treatment in AUG after 2 weeks of mental health care. The staff needs to reassess their treatments. This is not working out so good for the rest of us.

I mean, that's like saying if anyone gets a DUI, they should get life without parole. It doesn't work that way. You're in the hospital while you're acute. It's like if you have MS. You're admitted when your symptoms are acute and discharged when you're stable. But a hospitalization doesn't cure your MS. It just stabilizes the symptoms and you're safe for discharge. The next time you relapse, you seek treatment. It's the same for mental illness.

 

[LvsAMystry]

Live footage at Lewiston Hospital has armed personnel outside and it’s appearing they may think he could be in or at hospital

 

[justtrish]

Flightradar24 shows 3 life flight helicopters flying right now and the police helicopter still circling the same area as was posted before. I am not sure how to post a photo from my phone since I'm on WS on my laptop. They are still circling around and around in that same circle.. they must have a good idea he's there??

 

[LvsAMystry]

Eyewitness on CNN is confirming “lots of little kids” and families at the bowling alley.

Omg I hope this isn’t the case

 

[Gypsy Road]

It sucks that we have to live like this.

Amen, sister. So sad what the world has come to,

 

[Chimera]

I'm seeing a possible name and a third location, possibly, via local news. Nothin verified yet that I'm seeing but things are moving very quickly.
Those poor people, what a tragedy.

A bowling alley as well ?
Disgusting monster.

Active shooter situation with multiple injurie in Lewiston, Maine

Police are responding to three separate reports of shootings in Lewiston, Maine. The first call, at 7:15pm, was for Schemengee's bar; the second was for Sparetime, and the third at a Walmart.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Robert Card, 40, from Bowdoin, Maine, was named by Maine state police as the suspect in the shootings at a bowling alley, restaurant and Walmart distribution center.

He was sectioned after saying he was hearing voices, and threatening to shoot up the National Guard base in Saco, Maine.

Card was armed with an AR 15-style rifle with laser optics when he burst into the bowling alley at 7:15pm to begin his rampage. He is driving a 2013 white Subaru.

Lewiston city administrator confirmed that 22 were dead, local councillor Robert McCarthy said, with 50-60 were injured. Maine's hospitals said they were declaring a mass casualty event.
Bbm.

Get this guy now !
Part of me wants to see him rot in a tiny cell until he passes.
Or the other option -- go out in a blaze of glory ?
Except that means LE firing at him, with the killer shooting back -- and I don't want more people to be hurt or worse, die.

 

[IceIce9]

The bulletin says the man, Robert Card, had been trained as a firearms instructor at a U.S. Army Reserve training facility in Maine. The document says Card had been committed to a mental health facility for two weeks in the summer of 2023. It did not provide specific details about his treatment or condition.

The document also said Card had reported hearing voices and had threatened to carry out a shooting at the military training base in Saco, Maine.

Firearms instructor treated at mental health facility is person of interest in Maine shooting: cops

Police are searching for the man who opened fire at two locations Central Maine Medical Center said staff were “reacting to a mass casualty, mass shooter event” Officials urged residents to stay in their homes with their doors locked

apnews.com

 

[LvsAMystry]

Live news conference now