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Maine mass shooting suspect found dead, sources say
NBC10 ^ | 10-27-23 | Staff Reports

Posted on 10/27/2023 6:09:20 PM PDT by dynachrome

The man suspected in Wednesday's massacre that killed 18 people in Lewiston, Maine, has been found dead, sources told the NBC10 Boston Investigators Friday night.

Robert Card was the subject of a dayslong manhunt that followed mass shootings at the Just-In-Time Recreation bowling alley and Schemengees Bar and Grille.

The update comes after days of angst as an armed and dangerous man was unaccounted for after 18 people were killed and 13 injured.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcboston.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: carddead; hearingvoices; lewiston; maine; mentalhealthcrisis; mkultra; psychosis; robertcard; shooter
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To: dynachrome

Did I miss the meme of Bones McCoy?


161 posted on 10/27/2023 9:37:55 PM PDT by frank ballenger (“My job is to inform, not to convince.” St. Bernadette Soubirous )
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To: Jonty30

I know this is a rhetorical question but why don’t people like him just skip the part where they kill a lot of people and just off themselves in the beginning? It would eliminate a lot of negatives.


162 posted on 10/27/2023 9:38:39 PM PDT by NCC-1701 ((You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.))
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To: Fido969

What would be the motivation to kill deaf people??


163 posted on 10/27/2023 9:42:37 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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To: NCC-1701

It would be nice, but he couldn’t fill his rage if he did that.


164 posted on 10/27/2023 9:48:49 PM PDT by Jonty30 (It turns out that I did not buy my cell phone for all the calls I might be missing at home.)
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To: bigdaddy45

We will never hear about the high doses of meds (SSRI + others) that he was probably taking. Was he previously deployed and suffered head damage ? Just curious since people rarely go this crazy this fast. No excuse for him murdering anyone yet if he was receiving care, odd that after the care he went downhill so quickly.


165 posted on 10/27/2023 9:51:43 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Censored )
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To: Fido969

Fido969 wrote:


Many of the victims were members of a deaf corn-hole club, so the ASL person was pretty vital, I’m sure many of their deaf friends were watching.

Why go after deaf people?


166 posted on 10/27/2023 9:53:09 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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To: PsyCon

Thanks for your professional insight!


167 posted on 10/27/2023 9:56:33 PM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: PsyCon

Actually we should all want them to get help. Probably half the homeless have mental problems and no where to get the help they desperately need. I don’t think people need to be locked up forever but if this man had received adequate help he and 18 other people might be alive today.

Every single mass shooting has the word “he/she was on our radar”. Hearing voices is one thing, hearing voices that tell you to shoot up an army base is quite another. I know you are a professional, but how can anyone know if a medication is right or a dosage is right in a few weeks.

As to the stigma or not seeking help, this isn’t the 1970s. Maybe we should educate people that mental illness is an illness, not a defect.


168 posted on 10/27/2023 10:00:57 PM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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To: Ikeon

It seems to be the norm


169 posted on 10/27/2023 10:26:09 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: lightman
various voices...sometimes right ear only, sometimes left ear only, sometimes two or more voices in both ears saying stuff like "you are a loser" or "you are such a rotten creature that you do not deserve to live".

That sounds like an average Russia/Ukraine thread.

/injecting humor into a heavy story

170 posted on 10/27/2023 10:42:43 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²e a truck through this law.)
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To: Honest Nigerian

Motive?
Why does that matter?
Seriously? Even if he left a note (or manuscript).
Do you think anyone will say, “Oh! Now we understand. And I would have done all that shooting too.”?

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Point well made. What difference would it make to all the victims of this insane man, all the dead and wounded and all their families and loved ones? None whatsoever.


171 posted on 10/27/2023 11:03:17 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (There are only two sexes but there are 57 different types of queers.)
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To: All

About the motivation to kill deaf people at the bowling alley, possibly it was more that he had targeted the bowling alley and they happened to be there.

On the subject of hearing voices, do schizophrenics hear them as the voices of other persons or just “voices” because I believe it’s fairly common for non-schizophrenic people to pick up some sort of suggestive speech from inside their own minds, as in a person saying to themselves “don’t do it.” In my own case, I sometimes internally verbalize all sorts of rather violent statements that I don’t feel any compulsion to act on, and it makes me wonder if the spiritual universe is perhaps full of these suggestive comments, with schizophrenics acting differently in that they take the random comments to be instructions for them personally.

I’d be interested in knowing if any other sane readers get these sensations. I don’t call them voices because I don’t hear the words spoken, it’s more like Tourette’s syndrome where you involuntarily swear. I don’t do that but I do just randomly start telling myself odd things. I also have the senssation that these are not messages to me or for me, but just being intercepted by my brain. Is this common? I think it could be, because it seems to form the basis for a certain genre of humor that would not occur to comics if they weren’t also having that experience.


172 posted on 10/27/2023 11:06:33 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (It is possible to be against both Putin and globalism, in fact, I've done it. Give it a try. )
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To: cdcdawg

“...how it used to be serial killers that we always had popping up, but now it’s mass shooters. We went from one to the other. Weird.”

I had thought of that awhile ago. Also add in airplane high- jackings into the cycle and I’m sure there are more. Kidnappings perhaps?

I think a mix of social contagion, media fixations, political agendas, etc. all play a role. While we don’t seem to have many plane high-jackings anymore, I’m positive that there are just as many (probably more) serial killers out there but they aren’t getting any press.


173 posted on 10/27/2023 11:19:56 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: lightman

Mostly adult males? I would suggest perhaps his military background, which I imagine would emphasize adult males as a typical threat and a target.


174 posted on 10/27/2023 11:28:01 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: Maris Crane

Totally agreed with you. It was a compliment.


175 posted on 10/28/2023 2:09:00 AM PDT by .30Carbine
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To: crusty old prospector

You can skynet all you want. I’m not playing.


176 posted on 10/28/2023 2:43:51 AM PDT by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: dynachrome

Good, now I won’t have to hear more speculation on where he is and what he’s doing.


177 posted on 10/28/2023 3:22:54 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: cva66snipe

Dear God what a nightmare for you and your wife. It’s a risky business being a patient - lawyers and drugs run healthcare.

May your wife rest in peace.


178 posted on 10/28/2023 4:00:35 AM PDT by SE Mom (ScreamingEagleMom)
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To: dynachrome

Too bad he just didn’t kill himself first instead of destroying innocent lives.....


179 posted on 10/28/2023 4:09:02 AM PDT by 1217Chic
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To: uptowngirl

Maybe they were the surgically implanted type. Friend of mine has an implanted one, looks like he was rescued from a Borg cube ship minutes after they started the assimilation process.


180 posted on 10/28/2023 4:14:01 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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