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Maine mass shooting: 18 dead, dozens injured - Suspect is US Army reservist, recently released from mental health facility after 'hearing voices in his head'

Adam Sabes, David Spunt
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Thu, 26 Oct 2023 12:45 UTC

Police in Maine located a 'vehicle of interest' and are asking for help in finding Robert Card.

At least 22 people were killed and 30 more injured following a shooting in Lewiston, Maine, which took place at two locations on Wednesday night, a law enforcement source told Fox News' Jacqui Heinrich.

Comment: As of Thursday evening local time, AP is reporting that 18 people are confirmed dead.

Maine Public Safety Commissioner Mike Sauschuck said during a Wednesday night press conference that he wouldn't comment on the number of victims in the shooting, stating that the situation is "very fluid."

The Lewiston Police Department identified Robert R. Card of Bowdoin, Maine, as a person of interest in a Wednesday night Facebook post.

"Law Enforcement is attempting to locate Robert Card 4/4/1983, as a person of interest regarding the mass shooting at Schemengees Bar and Sparetime Recreation this evening. CARD should be considered armed and dangerous. Please contact law enforcement if you are aware of his whereabouts," the Lewiston Police Department wrote.

A Maine law enforcement bulletin shared with Fox News Digital states that Card is a "trained firearms instructor believed to be in the Army Reserve stationed out of Saco, ME."

Comment: CBS confirms that Card has been in the US Army reserve for over 20 years, but describes his service there as "petroleum supply specialist," not a firearms instructor.

The bulletin also states that CARD recently reported mental health issues, including "hearing voices and threats to shoot up the National Guard Base in Saco, ME."

According to the document, Card was committed to a mental health facility for two weeks over the summer before he was released.

He should be considered "armed and dangerous," according to the law enforcement bulletin.

A "vehicle of interest" was located in Lisbon, Maine, and state police are asking for the public's help in locating Card.

Central Maine Medical Center said in a statement they are reacting to a "mass casualty, mass shooter event," but couldn't state the number of victims.

Pictures shared by the Androscoggin County Sheriff's Office show the suspect wearing a brown sweatshirt and holding a rifle.

Residents of Lewiston were told to "shelter in place" and to "stay inside your home with the doors locked."

In a post on X, FBI Boston said they are coordinating with local and state law enforcement.

"The FBI Boston Division continues to coordinate with our local, state, and federal law enforcement partners in Maine, and we stand ready to assist with any available resources they need, including evidence response, investigative and tactical support, as well as victim assistance," FBI Boston wrote in an X post. "We continue to urge the public to remain vigilant and report any and all suspicious activity and/or individuals to law enforcement immediately. As this situation is still very fluid, we have no further comment at this time and will refer you to the Maine State Police."

Comment: More from CNN:

Here's a timeline of the evening:

Around 7 p.m.: Two shootings are reported in Lewiston with multiple casualties, according to Maine's Department of Public Safety commissioner Mike Sauschuck.

8 p.m.: Androscoggin County Sheriff's Office releases photos of the armed suspect and says it's investigating two active shooter incidents. The agency encourages "all businesses to lock down and or close while we investigate."

8:09 p.m.: Maine State Police says there's "an active shooter in Lewiston" and tells people to stay inside with their doors locked. "Law enforcement is currently investigating at multiple locations," the agency added.

8:26 p.m.: The neighboring city of Auburn urges all residents to shelter in place.

8:53 p.m.: Lewiston police identify the shooting locations as Schemengees and Sparetime Recreation, a restaurant and bowling alley.

9:17 p.m.: Lewiston police release the image of a white vehicle, asking members of the public to contact them if they see it. Maine State Police tell CNN the image is of the suspect's car.

10:52 p.m.: Police on social media name Robert Card as a "person of interest" in the shootings and release his photo.

Around 11:30 p.m.: Maine Department of Public Safety Commissioner Mike Sauschuck says a "vehicle of interest" was found in Lisbon, about 8 miles from Lewiston, but the person of interest remains at large.

11:34 p.m.: Lisbon officials say all town offices will be closed on Thursday and tell people to keep sheltering in place.

NBC reports that Card's psychological deterioration began when he was fitted for hearing aids a few months ago:

Card, a firearms instructor and a longtime Army reservist, began to hear voices that were saying "horrible" things about him about a couple of months ago when he was fitted for high-powered hearing aids, according to Katie Card, who is married to his brother.

She said his mental health had deteriorated quickly.

"He was picking up voices that he had never heard," she told NBC News. "His mind was twisting them around. He was humiliated by the things that he thought were being said." [...]

Katie Card said the family did their best to reassure Robert Card that the comments were not real, including by verifying with some of the people he claimed had made the remarks.

But, she said, "it turned into a manic belief." [...]

"We don't know this person. This is not him," she said.

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codis · 2023-10-26T11:37:04Z

A Maine law enforcement bulletin shared with Fox News Digital states that Card is a "trained firearms instructor believed to be in the Army Reserve stationed out of Saco, ME."

A military professional killing dozens of civilians unmasked - this means he did not reckon to survive it, or the follwing man hunt.

Dwoods44 · 2023-10-27T13:17:15Z

codis Right, the "lone gunman" will be eliminated or "suicided".

luftalchimist · 2023-10-26T12:24:59Z

CARD recently reported mental health issues, including "hearing voices and threats to shoot up the National Guard Base in Saco, ME."

Very telling. possibly yet another MKUltra type of mind controlled individual, though in this case they did not elect to take him out immediately: probably thought they could ramp up the shock effect by letting him go and warn the towns folk to stay indoors and lock the doors. "Be scared, be VERY scared".

JTF Truth · 2023-10-26T12:29:19Z

What a strangely written article. Prayers to the victims and families, real or not.

ReRan · 2023-10-26T13:04:19Z

JTF Truth That's how I feel as well.

Highland Fleet Lute · 2023-10-26T12:30:44Z

Very telling. possibly yet another MKUltra type of mind controlled individual

Or maybe אֱלֹהִים told him to do it.

Joe · 2023-10-26T12:54:04Z

Highland Fleet Lute possibly yet another MKUltra type of mind controlled individual. Or maybe אֱלֹהִים told him to do it.

Not much difference there.

Highland Fleet Lute · 2023-10-26T13:05:31Z

Joe You could quite possibly be right, Joseph.

(I bet your mama was the last person to call you that).

Joe · 2023-10-26T13:15:33Z

Highland Fleet Lute אֱלֹהִים keeps a lot of mind-controlled minions on hand for emergencies. I still remember how troubled I was the day I found out Joseph was a Hebrew name (or so they said).

Highland Fleet Lute · 2023-10-26T13:19:54Z

Joe It's probably short for Jehoshaphat.

Phew. Dodged a bullet there.

Joe · 2023-10-26T13:19:55Z

Highland Fleet Lute check this out. Gave me a good

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Highland Fleet Lute · 2023-10-26T13:27:11Z

Joe Yeah, I saw that yesterday.

Joe · 2023-10-26T16:12:45Z

Highland Fleet Lute It's probably short for Jehoshaphat.

My brother used to call me that!

Highland Fleet Lute · 2023-10-26T16:44:21Z

Joe Didn't get off so lightly after all, maybe.

Jumpin' Jehosaphat!!!!

Dwoods44 · 2023-10-27T13:33:11Z

Highland Fleet Lute There is the McGowan book on Programmed to Kill which reviews all of the serial killers at the time. In his view, serial killers are not simply crazy people.

They have been programmed, including Sirhan SIrhan the "lone gunman" who shot from in front of RFK but the bullet that killed RFK was at the back of the neck.

McGowan's book is available online under a different name. Here is a link to a site that discusses the programming of serial killers. [Link]

Highland Fleet Lute · 2023-10-27T13:38:19Z

Dwoods44 Yeah, I know about all that.

Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin looks a bit iffy in that regard too...[Link]

Dwoods44 · 2023-10-27T14:46:44Z

Highland Fleet Lute Thanks, Rabin was definitely eliminated.

Taarna · 2023-10-26T12:44:59Z

Card was committed to a mental health facility for two weeks

I wonder if this was voluntary.

Was the illness always there or did something trigger him?

Makes me think of the Vegas shooter. Senseless and random killing is distressing and sad.

Giant Meteor 24 · 2023-10-26T15:00:55Z

Taarna Committed implies that it was involuntary

Niall · 2023-10-26T19:45:50Z

Taarna NBC reports: [Link]

Card, a firearms instructor and a longtime Army reservist, began to hear voices that were saying "horrible" things about him about a couple of months ago when he was fitted for high-powered hearing aids , according to Katie Card, who is married to his brother.

She said his mental health had deteriorated quickly.

"He was picking up voices that he had never heard," she told NBC News. "His mind was twisting them around. He was humiliated by the things that he thought were being said." [...]

Modern hearing aids are equipped as 'receivers' of radio, bluetooth and other 'external broadcasts', and could well become trigger devices if 'hijacked'.

JTF Truth · 2023-10-26T19:58:52Z

Niall I agree with you about the hearing aids. Just seems a strange item to be mentioned and those around never thought to say, doh don't wear those hearing aids. We're they hardwired hearing aids? Better send him to the looney bin because he's hearing voices he never heard before he got hearing aids.

So it seems he still has the hearing aids.

I hate it when they throw out incomplete info to the masses, to see what sticks and what doesn't.

As I said above, this article is strangly written.

codis · 2023-10-27T05:48:07Z

Niall You wouldn't even need that.

Directly-to-ear transmissions are patented for many years. Just tune the RF carrier frequency to a human bone near the ear. The mass and inertia of the bone will filter out the audio signal. If I remember correctly, already the patent suggested a low-power transmitter to direct the signal to a specific target. If one assumes an MK-Ultra background, "broadcasting" the individual "trigger words" would be safe, too.

I don't know if that was the case here, only pointing out the technical realities.

Taarna · 2023-10-27T10:51:11Z

Niall I suppose he made a good "candidate" for their experiment, then. It's pretty unnerving to think about, so I've been trying to look, in my mind, for normal conclusions that don't allude to what seems to be more obvious deep state inner workings to stay more level headed in my judgements of the world around me.

Now the real question is, what are they trying to distract from or what narrative are they trying to push. It's too obvious for the gun control lobbyists, so I really think it's a distraction from the Middle East nonsense.

At least we now know it wasn't random. He went after his cornhole buddies.

rustytacks · 2023-10-27T13:13:18Z

codis Patrick Flanagan invented the Neurophone in 1958. It is an electronic nervous system excitation device that transmits sound through the skin directly to the brain, for which he received U.S. Patent no. 3,393,279 in 1968. When he presented his device at the patent office they turned him down, believing it could not be possible. Then an employee of the patent office who was deaf, tried the device out and began to laugh out loud because he could hear! AND YES it is used by MKULTRA.

codis · 2023-10-27T14:22:54Z

rustytacks

It is an electronic nervous system excitation device that transmits sound through the skin directly to the brain, ...

I tend to forget all these patent numbers ...

But you can take it one step further and modulate the audio signal onto an RF carrier. And if the RC frequency ist tuned to the size of a facial bone, said bone works as "demodulator", and by sheer mass oscillating on the frequency of the modulated audio rather than the RF carrier. Which causes the targeted person to hear voices as with the neurophone device.

Since this frequencies are in the microwave range (bone size -> lambda = c/f), it is easily focussed, so individuals can be targeted from a distance.

I'm not in the psychology or intel business, but I understand the technical aspect, being in the electrical engineering business.

Patrick2017 · 2023-10-27T14:51:26Z

Niall Using 5G wifi and voice to skull, was used on me. You can't turn it off, they also use it at night when your asleep to do what ever your told to do and not remember what you did. Like sleep walking and they have used this on me as well. I can see how this can affect people who don't understand what's happening to them. CIA /DARPA / FBI tech.

Dwoods44 · 2023-10-27T14:56:01Z

rustytacks Thanks.

azigzagidiot · 2023-10-27T19:25:28Z

rustytacks Patrick Flanagan invented the Neurophone in 1958. It is an electronic nervous system excitation device that transmits sound through the skin directly to the brain, for which he received U.S. Patent no. 3,393,279 in 1968. [...]

What is at issue is signal transduction, or transforming from electrical to auditory or vice versa. This is what a speaker does, electrical->auditory, or in reverse what a microphone does, auditory->electrical. Supposedly the neurophone applies an electrical signal with encoded audio to the skin, and somehow the skin or peripheral nerves transduce that signal and it is heard as sound in the brain.

There are indications that there is an integrated surveillance and influence system that works by monitoring audio, processing massive amounts of this data, and then injecting influential commentary back into the environment. It's only a stretch to credulity if you underestimate modern technology and computing power. The real magic trick in play is an interconvertability between electromagnetic and sonic waves...

Best as I can figure is that there is a background, sustained, extremely low frequency transmission essentially setting up a standing wave pattern. When vibrations (sounds) are registered as perturbations against this background they can be analyzed and deciphered for surveillance purposes. The trick again is that this system can then input physical vibrations (sounds) as feedback into the environment, a two-way surveillance and influence system.

In the DSM-I ca. 1950-1960 there is not even any mention of hearing voices as a positive symptom in schizophrenics . Yet, there was awareness of micowave hearing effects in radar operators starting during WWII. As time has gone on it's more or less been back-written into the public consciousness that hearing voices is a common and positive symptom of schizophrenia. Now, with incidents like this, are we supposed to believe people start hearing voices at age 40?

I actually take some hope from this in reading that he correctly relayed some information to people in his life. These signals can be recorded almost anywhere, but they're masked, they're (computer) generated sine-wave-speech suggestions or commentary, and they ride on auto-gain over other ambient noises. Only some people who become sensitized tend to hear them. The new angle here being the hearing aides were bringing it to the fore where he could hear...

It turns into something like a phone call you can't hang up. It's documented as well that the system plainly can observe and comment on goings-on in the environment nearly in real-time. If you aren't aware that it's a magic trick, it'd make people think they're off the reservation. Not only that, but it convinces people they're under some threat locally, it's shown to be negativistic and plays on degradation and incitement to violence, like a psychopathic AI geared toward psychically driving these incidents.

boli · 2023-10-26T13:44:04Z

Hmmmm... every "news" report so far says a bar and a bowling alley, and names the bowling alley "Sparetime Recreation", which is obviously a pun on the bowling term. However, the surveillance camera image of the shooter walking through a door clearly shows the name over the door as "Just-in-time Recreation". Time and Recreation being common element. Wonder if that's the same place, has two different names, name incorrect, or what? The guy may be an active or reserve soldier on duty at a local army facility, and reportedly has been institutionalized for mental health issues. If, in fact, this is an MKULTRA event, what's the point? Desensitizing for more Gazation? Seeing local cops be useless, so professional military will be welcomed? Following orders?

danny esq · 2023-10-26T16:21:42Z

boli yeah the website holds different name, plus they only give the motive framed as mental health case.

Eventide · 2023-10-26T13:44:34Z

Let me make a wild guess here: Renewed calls for an assault rifle ban?

His face is chilling. That dude isn't pulling the trigger. He's a blank slate - definitely an automaton of some sort. Whether he's controlled by forces on this side of the threshold or the other - or both - he's just given up the fight and doing what he's told. "Mental health experts" know nothing about possession, so they just found a lame-ass reason to let him go - it could have been as mundane as his insurance no longer paying for 24-hr care, or they needed the bed space.

Besides feeling sympathy for life-changing level of horror and pain being suffered by all of these people and their loved ones , this shouldn't stop us from considering the possible importance of his history and skillset. Is this event designed to challenge the argument that someone with training and expertise handles deadly weapons with respect and care?

Also, considering that there's a very broad movement afoot (especially in school settings) to identify and surveil anyone prone to challenging or questioning official narratives or policies under the guise of addressing mental illness, I'm wondering if berserker events like this are also designed to encourage the public to categorize "conspiracy theorists" and militia organizations as people who are mentally ill? Does the "Deep State" want public authorization to divest such people of weaponry? It's good to remember that their #1 ploy for implementing tyranny is problem, reaction, solution. Could this man have been turned into a murdering automaton to advance such an agenda? If so, I predict that "shocking information" will be coming out about his politics and affiliations very soon.

Robotech · 2023-10-26T13:57:26Z

When I saw active shooter my first guess was military.

boli · 2023-10-26T14:17:14Z

In Texas, gun ownership is already forbidden in cases of domestic violence, and I believe for patients receiving prescribed marijuana. I think sombunall various other medications - including highly popular antidepressants - are also grounds for such restrictions. These are in process of being widened and formalized to be used "administratively", which means a bureaucrat rather than a court.

On the other hand, over a hundred people die every day in America as a result of careless and sometimes even illegal use of automobile vehicles equipped with fully automatic transmissions.

JohnDukes · 2023-10-26T14:38:58Z

Wind ‘em up, then set ‘em loose. Time and again the same strategy. Fear, fear, fear, be afraid of your neighbors. Don’t build parallel structures. Be dependent. Poor bastard doesn’t even know he’s a part of a psyop.

danny esq · 2023-10-26T15:32:08Z

Schemengees Bar and Sparetime Recreation

Would like more information on these please.

Might actually help determine the motive.

danny esq · 2023-10-26T15:40:11Z

danny esq [Link]

Organizational gatherings ie work parties etc.

No information about what groups were using this venue and that is key to crossing out the motive of ex's (bf, gf, family friends, work collegues, LGBTQ affiliations, racial groups...)

Motives attached can be grievences, revenge etc etc

To much hysteria and low on info surrounding motive, we've heard the "extremely dangerous mental health" motive to many times to just accept it imho

danny esq · 2023-10-26T18:00:09Z

danny esq will wait to see what "facts" the establishment want to give us (for free).

fitz1959 · 2023-10-26T17:06:14Z

We need to wait for the facts. A lot of what the media has said so far is not true. There are 18 dead, "not at least 22", He was an army reservist (22 years) in July serving his summer camp at West Point when he was acting strange and commited to a military hospital. He was not involved with the acadamy or any students. His position was seargent first class and he was a petroleum specialist, he worked a fuel depot, not a firearms instructor. The media is already running with this for an anti gun hysteria!

Taarna · 2023-10-26T17:40:06Z

fitz1959 Not just the media... people have been running rampant with so called "facts" about Card.

That's mostly the case with the media though, when it involves a Caucasian male. Throw all kinds of stupid shit out there before getting any real information.

There were 3 places that reported gun fire, and it sure does seem rather random. Nothing really makes sense right now so I'm going to wait until more "facts" emerge... if they're true or not will be under scrutiny.

Eventide · 2023-10-26T22:47:31Z

I did hear recently that experiments were being conducted with different specific frequencies entering each ear simultaneously causing changes in consciousness that result in suggestibility. Seemed like it might (if it truly exists) be a sort of a fast-track to MKUltra programmability without the lengthy tear-down of higher-order thinking skills and inhibitions. Could this man be a test case?

balboa schwartz · 2023-10-26T23:44:56Z

Eventide If you're referring to binaural beat material, there is a pile and a half of that stuff on Youtube. It starts with one frequency in each of the two stereo channels, the idea being that the resulting sine waves that coincide with each other at the chosen frequency will tune your brain waves to that same frequency, and the various different frequencies are supposed to be beneficial for relaxation, concentration, stress relief, etc. But I think you're right about the MK/Ultra connection, and the guy did do two weeks in a 'facility' in July, so like the Aurora patsy, who knows.

ReRan · 2023-10-27T15:14:53Z

balboa schwartz Would graphene oxide in the body have anything to do with it?

Suspect · 2023-10-27T04:17:12Z

This whole story stinks of an MK ultra esque candidate psyop. A military member who started hearing voices which "humiliated" him after being fitted with hearing aids (which I assume was probably done by uncle Sam's doctors). I wonder if the mental health facility that he was committed to was a military facility?

parzival · 2023-10-27T06:16:22Z

'Dead Shooters Tell No Tales' Inducing "mental illness" through Electronic Warfare to create the "lone gunman" to cause mass hysteria for the gun grab agenda. by GOOD CITIZEN OCT 26 [Link]
'Directed Energy Weapon/Targeted Individual Patents' [Link]
"The era of deep fakes..." [Link]

DeliciousTears · 2023-10-27T14:18:20Z

I've got 100 bucks that the final body count will be 33....

codis · 2023-10-27T14:25:33Z

DeliciousTears It already says "22" in the text (not the headline - seems you can't expect mainstream media articles to be internally consistent ...).

That would be 2 x 11, supposedly to invoke the same "magick" as 9/11.

Just saying ...

DeliciousTears · 2023-10-27T16:57:49Z

codis Interesting this current boogeyman is still alive apparently. There's gotta be a round 2.

VooDoo6 · 2023-10-27T23:01:33Z

Lol - Roman Circus show is in town ?

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William J. Casey, CIA Director (1981)

MAINE MASSACRE & MANHUNT: BACK TO THE STAGED, FALSE FLAG, MASS SHOOTING PSYOPS……. [Link]
State Sponsored Terrorism – Media Foreknowledge of Mass Shooting in Lewiston Maine [Link]

Dwoods44 · 2023-10-28T13:04:06Z

There is no current post on the Maine shooting.

Here is an interview with a MK-Ultra survivor on the SGT report who gives deeper information on how you are trained, personality leak through, documentation on the projects, and some of his assignments. In my view, he appears to be the real deal. [Link]

parzival · 2023-10-28T14:31:44Z

"Breathe A Sigh Of Relief": Maine Mass Shooter Dead After Multi-Day Manhunt SATURDAY, OCT 28, 2023 [Link]
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"A two-day manhunt came to an end on Friday evening as authorities discovered the suspect responsible for killing 18 people at a bar and bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday, was found dead in an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in Lisbon Falls, according to NBC News..."

Dwoods44 · 2023-10-28T15:40:21Z

parzival Gee, "suicided" himself. Wow, who would believe it.

parzival · 2023-10-28T16:36:27Z

Dwoods44 One could see that coming a mile away...

So much for the US being "leader of the Free World."

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