By HOLLY RAMER (Associated Press)
Maine State Police paperwork launched Tuesday make clear why a delusional U.S. Army reservist who killed 18 individuals at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston could have focused these places.
Robert Card, 40, was discovered useless Friday, two days after a rampage that additionally wounded 13 individuals and shut down a number of communities throughout an enormous search on land and water.
Three hours after the capturing started, state police interviewed a girl who mentioned Card believed the Just-In-Time Recreation bowling alley, Schemengees Bar and Grille and a number of other different companies had been “broadcasting online that Robert was a pedophile.”
The girl mentioned Card had been delusional since February after a break-up, had been hospitalized for psychological sickness and prescribed medicine that he stopped taking, in response to a police affidavit filed in assist of an arrest warrant request.
Police additionally spoke to Robert’s brother, who mentioned Card had been in relationship with somebody he met at a cornhole competitors on the bar. Another man mentioned the identical factor to a unique officer, in response to an affidavit filed in a request to entry Card’s mobile phone data.
That man advised police he had been to each the bowling alley and bar with Card, and that Card knew individuals at each places. He mentioned Card’s girlfriend had two daughters that he would take out to eat at Schemengees, “and that is where the pedophile thing in Robert’s head came from as Robert was there with (his girfriend’s) two daughters on occasions and felt that people were looking at him.”
The man mentioned Card additionally talked about bar supervisor Joey Walker was one of many individuals who Card thought had disparaged him. Walker was amongst these killed.
Card’s son additionally advised police that paranoia about strangers calling him a pedophile had grow to be a recurring theme for his father since final winter.
He additionally accused fellow members of his Army reserve unit of calling him a pedophile in an incident in July that prompted Army officers to have him endure a psychological well being analysis. He then spent two weeks at a non-public psychiatric hospital in New York.
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