Chloe Atkins reports for the NBC News Investigative Unit, based in New York. She frequently covers crime and courts, as well as the intersection of reproductive health, politics and policy.
Robert Card’s sister called Lewiston police after two mass shootings in the Maine city and said her brother was the man seen in photos holding a long rifle, according to police documents released Tuesday. Card, 40, killed 18 people and wounded others when he opened fire at Schemengees Bar and Grille and Just In Time bowling alley in Lewiston on Oct. 25.
Card’s brother “said that ever since the relationship ended Robert started wearing hearing aids and had been saying crazy things,” it says. A motive in the shooting remains unclear. Card was a firearms instructor and an Army reservist who had been sent for in-patient mental health treatment in the past, officials have said. In July Army leadership took Card to a treatment facility, the Army said. On Aug.
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