Robert Card Believed People at Shooting Sites Were Talking About Him

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Card had previously spent time at a mental health facility and had complained of hearing voices.

The alleged gunman behind the mass shooting that killed at least 18 people in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday previously complained that he heard people talking negatively about him at the shooting sites.Police have since identified 40-year-old Robert Card as a suspect in the shooting, according to the Associated Press. Card is a firearms instructor and U.S. Army reservist assigned to a training facility in Saco, Maine.

'When Card's family members told him that the voices weren't real, he responded angrily.'We tried to listen to him and tell him that nobody was talking about him,' Katie Card said. 'Yesterday, as the story was unfolding, we prayed that Rob had nothing to do with this. But when we heard the two places where the shooting happened, my husband rushed home.'Police have not yet discussed if there was a motive behind the shootings.

 

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