John Miller/#CNN:.
16 deceased, 50-60 injured.
Shooter still at large.
Active shooter situation.
Shelter in place.
(Photos of shooter from Androscoggin County Police; car photo from Lewiston Police)
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/active-shooter-lewiston-maine-state-police/?s=09
Residents in Lewiston, Maine are being asked to shelter in place due to an active shooter.
Robert Card identified by police as person of interest in #Lewiston shootings.
"Card is a trained firearms instructor believed to be in the Army reserve stationed out of Saco, ME.
"According to law enforcement, Card recently reported mental health issues including hearing voices and threats to shoot up the National Guard base in Saco.
"He was reportedly committed to a mental health facility for 2 weeks."
https://x.com/CalltoActivism/status/1717378568093638942?t=zj6qsqpCtjVMJQZaXmzkdA&s=09
🚨🚨🚨MAINE SHOOTING UPDATE: Maine State Police are attempting to locate Robert Card as a person of interest regarding the mass shooting. The incident occurred at Schemeagees Bar and Grille Restaurant and the Sparetime Recreation in Lewiston. Card is a trained firearms…
#LewistonMaine presser:
#CNN is cutting out most of the person providing sign language translation. All we can see is part of an arm.
#MSNBC has cut her out totally.
#Media need to be more sensitive about the needs of the hearing impaired., especially in such circumstances.
UPDATE
This morning's presser:
18 dead
13 wounded
Robert Card still at large
He purchased his assault-style weapon legally
His family had recently raised concerns about his mental health & behavior.
UPDATE
John Miller/#CNN analyst:
It's now known Robert Card used to go to the bowling alley & bar he shot up yesterday w/ his former girlfriend, who was expected to be at the bar at a special event. His being fired from his job & breakup w/his girlfriend last summer are thought to be major contributing factors.
I see where you're coming from, but not sure how I come down on that. It's not like he may have wanted to kill her just because she's a woman, but because the combination of his mental illness, losing her and his job made him feel like his life was falling apart. He may have felt she abandoned him when he needed her to support him most. We don't know all the details yet. He also had threatened to shoot up the base he had been working at, so it's pretty complicated.
I just know & post what I hear on the news. This seems more like a complicated matter that includes domestic violence.
Given his mental illness, he may have been in a fugue state, and may still be. Turns out from what I found on Google yesterday, fugue states can last for years, tho they're usually a whole lot briefer. Not condoning it, think he was in a lot of pain, tried to eliminate a major source of it.
More on fugue states/Dissociative Disorder& violence:
https://www.google.com/search?q=can+people+in+a+fugue+state+commit+violence&client=ms-android-att-us-rvc3&sca_esv=576745885&ei=0xI6Zf23N9qHwbkPt_6TuAI&oq=can+people+in+a+fugue+state+commit+violence&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIitjYW4gcGVvcGxlIGluIGEgZnVndWUgc3RhdGUgY29tbWl0IHZpb2xlbmNlSOC2AVDTGFjxsgFwAXgBkAEBmAHDAaABzBOqAQUxMS4xMLgBA8gBAPgBAcICChAAGEcY1gQYsAPCAgQQHhgKwgIEECEYCsICBRAAGKIEwgIIEAAYiQUYogTiAwQYACBBiAYBkAYI&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp
You may be completely correct about his male sense of entitlement - I'm certainly personally familiar with that undesirable, destructive dynamic - and I'm open to that being the case in the end. Maybe it's the old psych major in me speaking, but I am getting an image of an underachiever with a failure complex complicated by a more serious neuro pathology.
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