Maine Gov. Janet Mills said she has appointed seven members with extensive legal, investigative and mental health backgrounds to the commission.
Maine Gov. Janet Mills on Thursday announced an independent commission has been tasked with investigating how warning signs appeared to be ignored in the months before a gunman killed 18 people in a mass shooting in Lewiston last month. Mills said she has appointed seven experts with extensive legal, investigative and mental health backgrounds to pursue the facts surrounding the shootings at Schemengees Bar and Grille and the nearby Just-In-Time Recreation bowling alley.
Card, a trained firearms instructor and U.S. Army reservist, had been known to law enforcement for months as family members and others became increasingly worried about his mental state. On July 15, Card accused several members of his battalion of calling him a pedophile while in New York for training. He was accused of shoving one member before locking himself in a motel room.
Five weeks before the shootings, a member of Card's Army Reserve unit sent a series of texts saying, 'I believe he's going to snap and do a mass shooting,' with a warning to be armed if anyone sees him. Mills did not specify a timeline for when the findings will be made available, though she said the commission will conduct its work publicly 'to the greatest extent possible' before issuing a formal public report upon the conclusion of the investigation.
The members of the independent commission include: Fox News' Chris Eberhart contributed to this report.
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