"Revealing Texts and Missed Warnings: Uncovering the Troubling Truth Behind the Maine Shooting"

Text messages and a letter from a US Army Reserve training supervisor to a Maine sheriff reveal the concerns and fears expressed by Robert R. Card II's fellow reservists about his severe mental illness and potential for committing a mass shooting. The texts, sent in September, urged the supervisor to change the passcode to the unit gate where weapons were stored, as one reservist believed Card was going to "snap and do a mass shooting." Despite the pleas for help, Card went on to kill 18 people and wound several others in a shooting at a bowling alley and bar in Lewiston, Maine, before dying of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot.