Richard Morlock, right, a member of the deaf community and surviver of the mass shooting at Schemengees Bar and Grille, embraces a person at a makeshift memorial in Lewiston, Maine, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. LEWISTON, Maine — — Police missed two clear opportunities to end a dragnet that locked down and terrified Maine's second-largest city after aThe body of Robert Card was found Friday in a trailer at a recycling center in Lisbon Falls that police had searched a day earlier.
Investigators are still searching for a motive for the massacre, but have increasingly been focused on Card's mental health history. Sauschuck said Card was hearing voices and had paranoia, adding that he believed “people were talking about him and there may even have been some voices at play.” Under Maine's yellow flag law, law enforcement can detain someone they suspect is mentally ill and poses a threat to themselves or others. The law differs from red flag laws in that it requires police first to get a medical practitioner to evaluate the person and find them to be a threat before police can petition a judge to order the seizure of the person’s firearms.
Family members of Card told federal investigators that he had recently discussed hearing voices and became more focused on the bowling alley and bar, according to law enforcement officials who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity in order to discuss details of the investigation.on Saturday after a dayslong lockdown in the city of 37,000. Joggers took advantage of the warm weather.
Three patients remained in critical condition at Central Maine Medical Center, and a fourth was stable, hospital officials said. Another patient was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital, and the rest were discharged. On Wednesday, Card attacked the bowling alley first and then went to the bar. Police were quickly sent to both locations, but Card was able to escape. For the next two days, authorities scoured the woods and hundreds of acres of Card's family-owned property and sent dive teams with sonar to the bottom of the nearby Androscoggin River.The Cards have lived in Bowdoin for generations, according to neighbors, and various members of the family own hundreds of acres in the area.