Breakdown: Investigating Maine's deadliest shooting
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Breakdown
On October 25, 2023, 18 people were killed in a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine. It was the nation's deadliest in 2023. It may have also been the most preventable.
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A Maine Law Could Have Forced the Lewiston Mass Shooter Into Mental Health Treatment. Why Wasn’t It Used?
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‘We’ll Always Blame Ourselves’: Card Family Shares Its Pain Over Collective Failure To Prevent Lewiston Mass Shooting
Members of Robert Card's family broke their public silence to make emotional pleas for improvements to the Army, law enforcement and mental health systems that they say failed to help them in the months before he committed the state's deadliest mass shooting.
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The FBI Set a Standard for Active Shooter Training. Ten Years Later, Maine Still Isn’t Widely Using It.
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‘I Should Have Died’: 4 Friends Recount the Horror of the Lewiston Shootings
Those who survived the worst massacre in Maine’s history carry unimaginable scars, including four women who were inside Schemengees Bar & Grille when a gunman opened fire.
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