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Danielle Parent, who is the director of the Maine Resiliency Center, knows that unless victim advocates take care of themselves and each other, they’re not as effective in caring for others.
Many people who have sought community services following the mass shooting are not terribly interested in looking back. They know what that looks like.
Episode 3 looks at questionable medical decisions, missed communication and lack of follow up by the Army. Finally, we’ll learn why the shooter’s family believes the military could do more to prevent brain injuries in troops.
The Gun Safety Coalition of Maine wants to make it easier for family members to petition a court to take firearms away from loved ones deemed a danger to themselves or others.
Six weeks before the attacks, the shooter's best friend warned that he might snap and commit a mass shooting. Episode 2 begins an examination into the numerous opportunities for intervention.
Progress has been made, with more to do, as institutions work to remove obstacles that on Oct. 25 and the following days led to confusion, anxiety and additional 'trauma.'
Cards and gifts are to given to first responders in Lewiston and Auburn on Friday as a thank you for their response to the Oct. 25, 2023, mass shooting.
Along with the anticipated OneLewiston Commemoration planned for 6 p.m. at The Colisée, several remembrances and services are planned for Thursday and Friday.
The discussion was held at the Benjamin Mays Center at Bates College.
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Heidi Patrie, right, gives a hug to a friend at a vigil Saturday in honor of the victims of the mass shootings in Lewiston. Patrie said her kids are very close with Joshua Seal’s children. Seal, who was a husband, father and a well-known American Sign Language interpreter in Maine, was one of the 18 people who lost their lives Wednesday. Brianna Soukup/Press Herald
We spent months talking to experts in mental health care about what happened in Lewiston and how to treat people who cannot or do not accept their mental illnesses.
Miia Zellner created the installation from the 261 flower sleeves saved from Just-In-Time Recreation and Schemengees Bar & Grille to commemorate the mass shooting on Oct. 25, 2023, in Lewiston.
The East End Community School and Maine Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing have dedicated the bench to Joshua Seal, who was an educational technician at the school from 2013-20.
Lawyers for survivors and those who lost family in the Lewiston mass shooting say the Army failed to uphold several promises and obligations when it released Robert Card to the community without addressing his change in behavior or taking his firearms.
Of the money donated in the months following the deadliest shooting in Maine history, $4.7 million went to individuals directly affected and $1.9 million went to groups that provided support in the community.
Notice of intent to file federal lawsuits against the U.S. Department of Defense and a U.S. Army hospital in New York were announced Tuesday afternoon in Lewiston.
Lawyers for 100 survivors and victims' family members say they've notified the Department of Defense and the Army that they intend to sue. The government has 6 months to investigate their claims before they head to court.
Maine Strong Memorial Foundation hopes to raise $350,000 for victims of the Oct. 25, 2023, mass shooting victims' families at its second softball tournament in Auburn and Lewiston.
Sgt. Aaron Skolfield was joined by mental health advocates and a former legislator at a press conference Monday to publicize Maine's Progressive Treatment Program, which they say could have prevented last year's Lewiston shooting.
A dozen religious leaders gathered Tuesday near the Maine State House to read passages and pray for the victims and families impacted by last October's deadly shooting in Lewiston.
A Sagadahoc County probate judge appointed a woman who lost her husband and son in the mass shooting to take over part of the gunman's estate in order to give her access his military and medical records.
Saturday's student-run mass casualty training featured Dr. Timothy Counihan, Central Maine Healthcare's chief of surgery, who coordinated the immediate response to the Lewiston shooting.
NENPA judges said "we applaud the newspapers’ persistent efforts to learn and report what happened, what failings may have occurred, and what, if anything, can be done to prevent another tragedy."
The bill would require the armed services to utilize state laws, such as Maine's yellow flag law, to disarm people who are a threat to themselves and others. It was introduced a little less than one year after the state's deadliest mass shooting.
Before his son was killed in the massacre last fall, Arthur Barnard hadn't voted in decades, flown on a plane or met with U.S. senators. All of that has changed.
Maine State Police on Friday released a 33-page after-action report detailing the agency's successes and failures in responding to and investigating the Lewiston mass shooting.
Shortly before Gov. Janet Mills' speech, state police released an after-action report detailing its response to last October's mass shooting that calls for more active shooter training.
Kevin Boilard, director of warming center operator Kaydenz Kitchen, said the location could also be ideal for Lewiston's permanent, low-barrier shelter, but city officials will ultimately decide.
State police released a new document that suggests the gunman 'would have known' that there were no cameras in the overflow parking lot at Maine Recycling Corp., where he had worked.
U.S. Rep. Jared Golden responded to his Republican challenger Austin Theriault's pledge to raise $50,000 at the Oxford Plains Speedway Pro All Stars Series 400 race.
About 100 friends and family members joined together Saturday to remember Tricia Johnson-Asselin who was killed in the Oct. 25, 2023, mass shooting at Just-In-Time Recreation.
The panel held a news conference at Lewiston City Hall on Tuesday to release its final report, 9 months after it began its work investigating the facts surrounding the Oct. 25 mass shooting.
The group of lawyers and mental health experts has held more than a dozen public meetings lasting hundreds of hours to investigate the facts surrounding the Oct. 25 mass shooting in Lewiston.
Maine's congressional delegation has been urging the Pentagon to adopt reforms since an Army reservist who had suffered brain damage from repeated blast exposures killed 18 people and injured 13 others last October.
More than 750 officers responded to dozens of locations during the 48-hour manhunt for the gunman. Police narratives released this summer show their movements during the key first hours after the shooting.
It took 2 days and 5 searches of a property in Lisbon, Maine, before police finally found the shooter’s body – despite repeated tips that it was his most likely hiding spot.
They call on Maine's congressional delegation to push for a Department of Defense probe, arguing that the Army's investigation and a review by the Army's inspector general had a 'narrow scope' and offered 'conflicting conclusions.'
An internal investigation finds Army Reserve officials made mistakes in Robert Card’s care but were not responsible for his release from a psychiatric hospital.
After weeks of trying to interview Patricia Moloney, a civilian medical professional, the commission investigating the Lewiston shooting quickly discovered they had been after the wrong person.
Maj. Matthew Dickison, who evaluated Robert Card initially, tells the commission investigating the mass shooting that New York's law doesn't appear to apply to non-residents.
The award is usually given to a single health care worker selected from a field of nominees. But the performance of the CMMC team in the aftermath of the Oct. 25 shooting meant that changes were necessary, said Maine Hospital Association President Steven Michaud.
Robert Card's battalion commander said his team did all it could to respond to warnings about Card's failing mental health last year and that his medical providers and police should have taken more responsibility.
Members of the National Shattering Silence Coalition, including former state legislator John Nutting, have urged the commission investigating the shooting to promote expanding use of Maine's progressive treatment program.
However, the House version of the defense bill, which cleared the House in a partisan vote on Friday, does not contain the Blast Overpressure Safety Act.
The Freedom of Information Award from the New England First Amendment Coalition recognizes the group of newspapers for 'relentlessly' requesting public information from the government that helped it report on Maine's deadliest mass shooting.
Thursday's appearance by an Army doctor was a chance for members to get clarity on what types of resources were offered to mass shooter Robert Card in the months before last year's tragedy.
An FBI bulletin included in the 3,000 pages of documents state police released Friday said Robert Card frightened a friend with his erratic behavior just before the mass shooting in Lewiston, but the man later admitted to police that he was lying.
Voters in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District will choose the Republican candidate who will challenge three-term Rep. Jared Golden this fall in one of the nation’s most closely watched congressional elections.
Johanna Carr said Robert Card could have easily figured out ahead of time if she was at Schemengees and would have known she wouldn't have been at Just-in-Time Recreation.
The Maine State Police on Friday released more than 3,000 pages of heavily redacted documents from their investigation into the state's deadliest mass shooting.
The request follows a determination that the Army reservist responsible for the Lewiston mass shooting had likely suffered brain injuries during military training.
'I am confident that our members responded to the mass casualty event in Lewiston in both a sober and professional manner,' Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce said.
A commission investigating the deadliest shooting in Maine history plans to take up accusations contained in a report that said self-dispatching police officers created 'chaos' during a search for the gunman
Members of Robert Card's family broke their public silence Thursday 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.
Several members of Robert Card's family, including his sister and ex-wife, spoke Thursday about how they tried to get him help for months before he killed 18 people in October.
Family members of the Lewiston gunman and an official from the Army Reserve's psychological health program will testify Thursday in front of the commission investigating the mass shooting.
Sgt. Aaron Skolfield on Tuesday filed a 20-page response with the commission investigating the mass shooting, saying members unfairly targeted his actions when they have yet to finish their work.
The governor let the 72-hour pause pass without her signature, saying she was ‘deeply conflicted.’ She vetoed a second bill that would have banned rapid-fire devices.
The newly signed law, which the governor proposed in the wake of the Lewiston mass shooting, expands requirements for background checks to include private, advertised sales and also updates the existing yellow flag law.
Daryl Reed, the soldier whom Robert Card threatened during the unit's annual training, and Sean Hodgson, who was Card's closest friend, spoke for the first time in front of the commission investigating the mass shooting.
But the full Legislature never took up a proposal for a red flag law that would give families, in addition to law enforcement, the ability to restrict a person's access to weapons without a mental health evaluation.
Bank of America Vice President Kevin Cote started training for the Boston Marathon 10 weeks ago and hopes to raise $5,000 for the Bath-based Pine Tree Society.
House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross requires Reps. Michael Lemelin and Shelley Rudnicki to read a formal apology on the House floor before restoring their right to speak during floor debates.
And the state's former chief medical examiner said his office knew who the victims were on the night of the shooting, but Maine State Police told his office not to share the information.
The U.S. Army reservist who killed 18 people in Lewiston in October had been exposed to 'thousands of low-level blasts' during years of grenade training, and the damage has been linked to mental health and behavioral changes he exhibited before the shooting.
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