Authorities publicly identified Robert Card as a person of interest about four hours after he shot and killed 18 people and wounded 13 others during attacks last week at a bowling alley and bar in Lewiston, Maine. But Card, who was found dead two days after his rampage, had been well known to law enforcement for months. Here’s a look at some of the interactions he had with sheriff’s deputies, his family, and members of his Army Reserve unit, as gleaned from statements made by authorities and documents they released:
May
On May 3, Card’s 18-year-old son and ex-wife told a school resource officer in Topsham, about 15 miles southeast of Lewiston, that they were growing concerned about his deteriorating mental health.A Sagadahoc County sheriff’s deputy met with the son and ex-wife that day and the son said that around last January, his father started claiming that people around him were saying derogatory things about him. He said his father had become angry and paranoid, and described an incident several weeks earlier in which he accused the son of saying things about him behind his back.
