Maine Police Issued Statewide Alert Weeks Ago About Shooting Suspect’s Threats: AP

Authorities in Maine issued a “statewide awareness alert” last month following threats made by Robert Card, the now-deceased U.S. Army reservist suspected of killing 18 people across two mass shootings in Maine earlier this week, two law enforcement chiefs told The Associated Press.

“We added extra patrols, we did that for about two weeks. ... The guy never showed up,” Saco police chief Jack Clements told the Associated Press.

Card had trained as an Army reservist in Saco and allegedly threatened to shoot up the National Guard Base where he had trained, Card’s sister-in-law Katie Card previously told The Daily Beast.

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