The sheriff had also been informed of the possibility of him committing a massacre. But the report was not taken too seriously, until the day of the massacre .

Six weeks before Army reservist Robert Card killed 18 people in Lewiston, Maine , the police had also been alerted, without the latter intervening in any way. This was revealed by the New York Times, citing law enforcement sources. The warning about the man was far more explicit than Maine officials have publicly admitted following Wednesday's attack, the deadliest mass shooting this year in the United States . In fact, in September the reservist department contacted the local police reporting that the killer was in the grip of "paranoid delusions and - in particular - claimed to have been accused by his fellow soldiers of being a pedophile, even punching one of They".

Card had reportedly been admitted to a New York psychiatric hospital for two weeks in July. Not only that, sheriff's sergeant Aaron Skolfield had been at the killer's house on September 16 trying to contact him. But, even though it was clear that someone was home, no one opened the door. The murderer's family also told the police that they had tried on several occasions to take away the weapons in his possession.

(Unioneonline/vf)

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