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2023-10-26 -Lurid Crime Tales-
At least 22 killed and SIXTY more injured in Lewiston, Maine, mass shooting after gunman armed with AR-15 opens fire at bowling alley hosting CHILDREN's league and then at a bar: Firearms expert and Army reservist Robert Card named person of interest
The poor man is mentally ill, not a jihadi.
Aren't they all?
Moved to Page 3: Non-WoT at 11:00 p.m. ET
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • At least 22 people have been shot dead in Lewiston, Maine and 50-60 people injured at two different locations: a bowling alley and a bar

  • Robert Card, a 40-year-old Army reservist and firearms instructor from Bowdoin, is named by police as 'a person of interest': his empty car has been found

  • The shooting is the most deadly in the United States this year, and the worst since the El Paso shooting at a Walmart in 2019

The NY Post adds:
Card is from Bowdoin, Maine and is believed to be an Army Reservist stationed out of Saco, Maine, sources told The Post.

He suffered from mental health issues, including recently reporting "hearing voices" and threatened to shoot up the military training base in Saco, sources said.

Over the summer he was committed to a mental health facility and released after a two-week stay, sources additionally said.

A phone number listed for Card was not in service, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.

Card also apparently lost his job recently, CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
 reported on-air Wednesday night.

Courtesy of badanov, from NPR:
The Maine State Police have asked people living in Lewiston, the state's second-largest city, to shelter in place Wednesday night. This comes after reports of a mass shooting in multiple locations.

In addition, the Lewiston Police Department has also ordered people to shelter in place. The department cited a "manhunt in the area" and instructed people to "stay inside with doors locked."

They say the "target" is reportedly connected to an incident that involved a shooting at three different locations.

The police department has released images of the suspect in tonight's shootings. The department has also released an image of the suspect's vehicle.

The White House said President Biden was aware of the situation, telling reporters, "The president has been briefed on what's known so far about the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, and will continue to receive updates."
Posted by Skidmark 2023-10-26 01:40|| || Front Page|| [11148 views ]  Top

#1 Mass shooting in Maine, Lewiston is the deadliest shooting this year in the US - with more than 500 recorded already
Posted by Skidmark 2023-10-26 01:43||   2023-10-26 01:43|| Front Page Top

#2 ...the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:. Peter 5:8 (everywhere)
Posted by Captain Splat8849 2023-10-26 02:08||   2023-10-26 02:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Lewiston, Maine mass shooting: At least 22 dead as manhunt intensifies for person of interest Robert Card
Posted by Skidmark 2023-10-26 03:12||   2023-10-26 03:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Funny how the timing is, as people are arming up after the HamAss attacks, we have yet another mass shooting.

These things are a little too conveniently timed to benefit demonrats.
Posted by Silentbrick 2023-10-26 04:43||   2023-10-26 04:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Your 731 Immunization record, your shot record please.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-10-26 06:17||   2023-10-26 06:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Stop & Ask.
IF Government was strictly required to adhere to the 2nd Amendment, then there would been self-defense armed citizens there. How many holes do you think he would have had in him, after he discharged the 1st round?

Either Way
The "FEDERAL & State Authorities" knew, that he had a serious dangerous mental health problem and history. All of which clearly indicated he posed a realistic and immediate deadly threat to others.

Also Ask
Why wasn't he Institutionalized for treatment after the 1st mass threat incident?

QUESTION
When are we going to return to the successfully proven practice of detaining the dangerous mentally Ill for proper treatment?

Or, was he used allowed to roam free, armed and guided like a puppet for political agenda reasons?
Posted by NN2N1 2023-10-26 06:52||   2023-10-26 06:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Dude was "hearing voices" and previously threatened to shoot a place up.
Posted by Frank G 2023-10-26 06:54||   2023-10-26 06:54|| Front Page Top

#8 No reports of anyone returning fire
Posted by Slenter Panda4300 2023-10-26 06:55||   2023-10-26 06:55|| Front Page Top

#9 The Times of Israel gives us a report from Ay Pee, which adds this interesting tidbit:

Wednesday’s death toll was staggering for a state that in 2022 had 29 homicides the entire year.

Lewiston emerged as a major center for African immigration into Maine. The Somali population, which numbers in the thousands, has changed the demographics of the once overwhelmingly white mill city into one of the most diverse in northern New England.

Voices in his head suggests Non-WoT, but we’ll let it ride until we’re certain.
Posted by trailing wife 2023-10-26 07:04||   2023-10-26 07:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Any info on the victims? Im not seeing anything.
Posted by BrerRabbit 2023-10-26 08:52||   2023-10-26 08:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Any info on the victims? Im not seeing anything.

If the victims were: Somali, other Muz, or African-Americans; we'd be already told that his great - great grandfather may have been a Jew.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-10-26 09:35||   2023-10-26 09:35|| Front Page Top

#12 I hear voices but mostly they say things like, "That jerk that is fucking your project there? The one eating a couple brownies? Put a chocolate X-Lax in one."
Posted by DarthVader 2023-10-26 10:09||   2023-10-26 10:09|| Front Page Top

#13 My immediate assumption is they were Republicans or Christians or other deplorables.
Posted by BrerRabbit 2023-10-26 10:26||   2023-10-26 10:26|| Front Page Top

#14 #12 I hear voices but mostly they say things like, "That jerk that is fucking your project there? The one eating a couple brownies? Put a chocolate X-Lax in one."

I stopped listening because they were repeating the same thing over and over again:

"What the fuck?"
Posted by badanov 2023-10-26 10:27||   2023-10-26 10:27|| Front Page Top

#15 Dude was "hearing voices" and previously threatened to shoot a place up.

Now, that doesn't make him a bad man.
Posted by Skidmark 2023-10-26 11:36||   2023-10-26 11:36|| Front Page Top

#16 #6, NN2N1, you're asking why? See #4. Yes, Silentbrick, it is always suspiciously convenient for demonrats. It's pathetic how the media always goes into overdrive whenever something like this happens. They trot out the mayor, the police chief, the DA, the governor. They'll rush to the White House for a statement about how very badly we need gun control. Nothing that any of these people say will make any difference and the media will never ask the CIA about Operation Chaos. But it's always some whack job who, for some unknown reason, got his hands on a gun and that is truly suspicious.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-10-26 11:57||   2023-10-26 11:57|| Front Page Top

#17 Army reservist who's been recently in a mental facility.
Bet he's had all of his shots.
Posted by ed in texas 2023-10-26 12:02||   2023-10-26 12:02|| Front Page Top

#18 Again, a "known wolf" who didn't "get" his hands on a gun, he already had them. Known. Trained by our govt. He reached out for help and was sent back into the society. This is the argument, not the smoke screens of gun control or even mental illness. Why was he circulating amongst us much as Ray Epps? Where do these folk come from?
Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-10-26 12:06||   2023-10-26 12:06|| Front Page Top

#19 Where do these folk come from?

Much like ballots, 'these folks' are manufactured, then released back into society to show the public how the masses must be managed.

Check Beserker's 'A Conflict of Visions' lead.
Posted by Skidmark 2023-10-26 12:30||   2023-10-26 12:30|| Front Page Top

#20 Boris Rozhin posted a public message by Card that he was training "freedom defenders," Ukrainians.
Posted by badanov 2023-10-26 13:15||   2023-10-26 13:15|| Front Page Top

#21 /\ Number 17 for SOTD.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-10-26 13:28||   2023-10-26 13:28|| Front Page Top

#22 I thought I read somewhere that he was enlisted, USAR retired, and that he had just lost his job? After two weeks of recent inpatient hospitalization for mental issues, what kind of medications were prescribed post-release?
Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-10-26 19:08||   2023-10-26 19:08|| Front Page Top

#23 what kind of medications were prescribed post-release?
Posted by: NoMoreBS

The last three shootings that I was involved in the subjects were prescribed xanex and drinking alcohol against the Doc's orders. A really bad bad combination.
Posted by Tennessee 2023-10-26 21:39||   2023-10-26 21:39|| Front Page Top

#24 From MSN/USA Today:

Who is Robert Card?

Card, at the time of the shooting, was a sergeant first class in the Army Reserve, according to the Army. He enlisted in December 2002 and had no combat deployments. His military specialty is petroleum supply, and he has received several awards, including a Humanitarian Service Medal.

The Army said in a statement that Card's unit assisted in the summer training program provided at its academy in West Point, New York, in July, but "there are no records to indicate he instructed or participated in any training. The Army did not train (Sergeant First Class) Card as a firearms instructor, nor did he serve in that capacity for the Army.''

Two surveillance photos on a Facebook post by local law enforcement showed a person police believe to be Card walking into a bowling alley with a rifle raised to his shoulder.

A state police bulletin circulated Wednesday said Card had been committed to a mental health facility for two weeks this summer after “hearing voices and threats to shoot up” a military base.

In mid-July, Card was taken by police for an evaluation after military officials became concerned that he was acting erratically, The Associated Press reported, citing a U.S. official.

CNN reported that Card's sister-in-law, Katie O'Neill, told the network the Wednesday rampage was "an acute episode. This is not who he is. He is not someone who has had mental health issues for his lifetime or anything like that.''

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Posted by trailing wife 2023-10-26 23:00||   2023-10-26 23:00|| Front Page Top

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