Tragic Oversight: Police Warned Weeks Before of Danger Shooter Posed Before He Killed 18 People
Several weeks before a tragic shooting spree in Lewiston, Maine, that resulted in 18 deaths and the shooter’s own suicide, law enforcement authorities were forewarned about the potential danger posed by the suspect, a Bowdoin man. This individual, who previously served as a sergeant in the Army Reserve’s 3rd Battalion, 304th Infantry Regiment, had recently been terminated from his job at a local recycling plant. Leading up to the devastating event, he reportedly began experiencing …