Maine
Survivors, relatives of victims in Lewiston mass shooting file lawsuit against US government, military
The lawsuit describes the 2023 shooting that left 18 people dead as “one of the most preventable mass tragedies in American history."
Maine
In final report, Maine commission probing Lewiston shooting details multiple failures to stop gunman
The gunman's Army Reserve unit “failed to undertake necessary steps to reduce the threat he posed to the public,” the commission wrote in the 215-page report.
Crime & Courts
Five takeaways from the final report on Lewiston mass shooting
The 215-page report focuses on the timeline leading up to, during, and immediately after Robert Card killed 18 people and wounded more than a dozen more at a bar and a bowling alley.
Maine
Read the Maine commission’s final report on the Lewiston shootings that left 18 people dead
The release of the report caps a nine-month inquiry into how an Army reservist with a diagnosis of psychosis was able to keep a personal trove of guns even as he alarmed relatives, friends, and colleagues with threats of violence.
Maine
‘I want to see something done’: As Maine mass shooting probe nears end, survivors want action to prevent future violence
For survivors and victims’ families, it has been an agonizing wait for the commission’s final report, which it expects to release Tuesday at Lewiston City Hall.
Maine
Maine mass shooter told civilian mental health hospital last summer he had ‘hit list,’ Army Reserve report says
Despite the gunman's symptoms of psychosis and “homicidal ideations” in August 2023, a New York hospital allowed him to leave the facility. Less than three months later, he carried out the state's worst mass shooting.
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Read the Army Reserve’s report on the Lewiston shooting
A New York mental health hospital moved to have the gunman involuntarily committed — but later allowed him to leave, according to an Army Reserve investigation.
Maine shootings
‘Love hasn’t failed yet’. He survived the Maine shootings with his partner by his side. Now, they’re engaged.
“Love hasn’t failed yet. We have come through this together and we have become stronger together,” Ben Dyer said.