The suspect in the Lewiston, Maine massacre that killed 18 people Wednesday has been found dead, sources told NBC10 Boston Investigators Friday evening.
After the mass shootings at the Just-In-Time Recreation bowling facility and the Schemengees Bar and Grille, Robert Card was the subject of a days-long manhunt.
Specific information was not readily accessible. However, according to sources who spoke to the NBC10 Boston Investigators, there is no longer any concern in Maine as Card has been located and has died.
The update follows days of anxiety as a dangerous gunman was still missing after 18 people were killed and 13 injured.
Androscoggin County and parts of neighboring Sagadahoc County were under shelter-in-place orders. Those orders were lifted Friday morning.
According to several law enforcement sources, the gun investigators believe Robert Card used to kill 18 people and injure more than a dozen others was legally purchased days before he was hospitalized and ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
In mid-July, New York State Police were called to Card Military Base in Cortlandt, New York, because he was acting “belligerent and possibly intoxicated,” according to a source with knowledge of the situation .
Three law enforcement sources say state police transported Card to a nearby hospital, where he was treated for poisoning and released the next day.
A spokesman for the New York State Police said: “This is an active investigation and the New York State Police does not comment on active investigations.”
A federal law enforcement source told CNN that the Army issued Card a “command referral” to seek treatment after he disclosed to Army personnel at Camp Smith that he had been “hearing voices ” and contemplated “harming other soldiers.”
A spokesman for Army National Guard Reserve officials reported that Card was “behaving erratically,” and was transported to Keller Army Community Hospital at the U.S. Military Academy. United States for a “medical evaluation.”
According to law enforcement sources, Card’s encounters with the New York State Police and his National Guard superiors came just 10 days after he bought the high-powered rifle at a thrift store. ‘firearms in Maine.
The gun was a Ruger SFAR chambered for .308 high-powered ammunition, sources said. Long range military snipers and big game hunters favor the 308 caliber. It is larger and more powerful than the standard ammunition that soldiers and SWAT teams carry in their rifles.
A ballistics match has not been validated, but sources say the gun discovered in Card’s white 2013 Subaru Outback appears to be the same one used by the shooter at the bowling alley and local bar. The FBI and ATF will examine the gun for fingerprints and DNA, followed by lab tests to see if the cartridges and cartridges discovered at the crime scene match.
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