3 Army Officials Punished After Investigation of Maine Reservist's Mass Shooting Finds Numerous Failures
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Sgt. 1st Class Robert Card, the Army reservist who went on a shooting rampage in Lewiston, Maine, in October, seemed like a textbook case of someone who needed help. He was hearing voices, became increasingly paranoid, threatened people, and owned guns.
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Sgt. 1st Class Robert Card, the Army reservist who went on a shooting rampage in Lewiston, Maine, in October, seemed like a textbook case of someone who needed help. He was hearing voices, became increasingly paranoid, threatened people, and owned guns.
By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — A US Army investigation into Robert Card — the Army reservist who shot and killed 18 people in Lewiston, Maine, last year — found a series of failures and breakdowns in communication among Card’s military chain of command, civilian law enforcement and medical providers,…
An Army report cited communication failures within the chain of command, among other problems, in the aftermath of a 2023 mass shooting by Robert Card.
The Army reservist who was held in a psychiatric hospital less than three months before he committed a mass shooting last fall in Lewiston, Maine, warranted a required follow-up investigation upon his release, but it wasn't condcuted — one of a series of failures and "multiple errors" by his unit, a…
