Maine Mass Shooting Survivors, Victims’ Families Sue Army, DOD for Alleged Negligence

The Oct. 25, 2023, shooting left 18 people dead and 13 wounded.
Maine Mass Shooting Survivors, Victims’ Families Sue Army, DOD for Alleged Negligence
An overflow crowd watches a television screen as it broadcasts from inside the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul the remembrance ceremony in Lewiston, Maine, on Oct. 29, 2023. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Bill Pan
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The U.S. Army is facing a negligence lawsuit brought by survivors and families of victims of the 2023 mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, who accuse the military of ignoring warning signs before an Army reservist carried out the attack.

The complaint, filed on Wednesday in federal court in Maine on behalf of 100 individuals, also targets the U.S. Department of Defense and Keller Army Community Hospital in West Point, New York, where the perpetrator, Robert Card, underwent a mental health evaluation just six weeks before the killings.