'Maine shooter had mental health problems'

By Agence France-Presse

Oct 30, 2023 12:07 am

LEWISTON, United States: Police in Maine said Saturday that the man who gunned down 18 people at a bar and a bowling alley, and later committed suicide, suffered serious mental health issues, but was able to buy weapons legally because he had never been forcibly committed to treatment.

The body of Robert Card, a 40-year-old army reservist, was discovered Friday night inside a tractor trailer near a recycling center where he used to work, said Maine public safety commissioner Mike Sauschuck. Card had shot himself.

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