Troubling Timeline: Maine Sheriff Alerted on Gunman Weeks Before Mass Shootings

New documents reveal that concerns about the Maine shooter, who killed 18 people and injured several others in October, were relayed to the sheriff's department months before the shooting. The documents show that Card's ex-wife and son had reported his paranoid behavior and retrieval of an arsenal of guns, while the Army Reserve sent him to a psychiatric facility after he made threats of violence. Despite these warnings, the department failed to make contact with Card during wellness checks and allowed his family to attempt to take away his weapons instead of intervening directly. The documents raise questions about whether law enforcement agencies did enough to track down Card and assess the threat he posed.
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