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He thanked me for the notification because they are scheduled for an upcoming training exercise involving crew served weapons and grenades,” Carleton wrote in the May incident report.

Mote said he had no idea the problem is perhaps as bad as (Card’s son) is now describing.

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denied that Robert has done anything threatening with the guns, but is concerned that his father has them.”Ĭarleton was told that Card “had been accusing other soldiers of calling him a sex offender which seems to coincide with some of the behavior has witnessed,” he writes, but that the full extent of the issue may not have been known. said the majority of the guns are locked up in Robert's bedroom but added he may have one in his truck. “Cara also told me that Robert had recently picked up 10-15 handguns/rifles that had previously been stored at his brother Ryan Card's house. “Cara said she is very worried about spending time with Robert, considering what may be a deteriorating mental health condition,” Carleton wrote.

“Robert is currently an Army Reservist assigned to a training unit in Saco and has historically instructed soldiers on the use of hand grenades,” Carleton learns from Card’s son and ex-wife, according to the May incident report. In the aftermath of the carnage that rocked rural Maine last week a portrait of who Robert Card was is now coming into fuller public view – though the documents show that worrisome warnings had already been communicated to law enforcement for months. That paranoia and anger would be turned towards his own family, recounting that in April he had visited his father and Card “became very angry, accusing him of saying things about him behind his back.” In public, Card’s son said his father would “start to claim that people around them were talking about him” even when nowhere nearby, and saying nothing in his direction.Ĭard’s son concluded his father was “likely hearing voices or starting to experience paranoia,” a “re-occurring theme” as Card claimed derogatory things were being said about him, “such as calling him a pedophile,” Carleton wrote. told me that back around January, he noticed his father was starting to claim that people were saying things about him, while out in public,” Carleton wrote. “I learned from that his father's mental health is in question. In all caps at the top of that report, a notice to patrol advises to “USE CAUTION IF RESPONDING” to Card’s residence due to his “PARANOID BEHAVIOR” and that he has “10-15 FIREARMS” in his house and/or truck. On May 3, Card’s ex-wife and their teenage son went to the office of the Topsham School Resource Officer with concerns about Robert Card, according to an incident report from responding officer, Sagadahoc County Deputy Chad Carleton. 25, Card’s repeated warning signs would prove fatal, when he would act on his threats in back-to-back massacres that claimed the lives of 18 and injured 13 more.

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By May it was getting even worse, and they were concerned for his well-being, and that he had access to firearms.ĭespite some follow-up between local police and the Army Reserves regarding Card’s apparent paranoia, verbalized threats to shoot people and recurrent aggressive behavior in recent months, the documents do not indicate that Card was ever taken into protective custody or judged mentally incompetent by a medical professional which is required to trigger Maine’s yellow flag law. Months ahead of his bloody rampage in Lewiston last week, suspected Maine gunman Robert Card had displayed glaring signals that his mental health was on a drastic decline – signals which his immediate family members knew about, were concerned by – and explicitly warned law enforcement that something needed to be done, according to documents obtained by ABC News via records requests.Īs far back as January, Card’s mental health had already started to decline, his family said.

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