On October 25, 2023, 40-year-old Robert Card carried out a spree shooting in Lewiston, Maine, United States, killing 18 people and wounding 13 others.

[9][10][11] The initial attack occurred at the Just-In-Time Recreation bowling alley during a youth league event, followed shortly by a second shooting at the Schemengees Bar & Grille Restaurant.

[12] Following these events, Card escaped, prompting the Androscoggin County Sheriff's Office to initiate an extensive manhunt and release his photograph identifying him as the suspect.

Forty-nine hours later, on October 27, authorities discovered Card dead in a tractor-trailer due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound near a recycling center in Lisbon, Maine, where he had been recently employed.

[16] The first shooting occurred on October 25, 2023, at Just-In-Time Recreation, a bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine, during a youth league event.

[17] The shooter, 40-year-old Robert Card, used a Ruger SFAR semi-automatic rifle[18] chambered in .308 Winchester[19] and equipped with an extended magazine, flashlight and optic.

[21] Shortly after, at 7:07, a second shooting was reported at Schemengees Bar & Grille Restaurant, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of the bowling alley.

[32][33] Three hours after the shooting, police in Lisbon, a small town 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Lewiston, found Card's abandoned vehicle at a boat launch along the Androscoggin River.

[36] On October 26, the Maine State Police and Governor Janet Mills confirmed the number of victims[37] and announced that an arrest warrant was issued for the suspect, who was charged with eight counts of murder.

[41] At 7:45 p.m. on October 27, Card was found dead near his former place of employment, a recycling center close to the Androscoggin River in Lisbon.

[52] Nirav Shah, former head of the Maine Center for Disease Control and currently the deputy director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, offered his condolences for Joshua Seal, a victim who had been employed under Shah as an American Sign Language interpreter for the deaf during the COVID-19 pandemic.

[56] On October 25, President Joe Biden made calls to several Maine lawmakers to offer full federal support.

[57] On October 26, he ordered that U.S. flags be lowered to half-staff for five days as "a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence perpetrated in Lewiston, Maine".

[58][59] In a later statement, Biden urged lawmakers to impose an assault weapons ban and introduce more gun regulations, saying it is "not normal, and we cannot accept it" and that current safety measures are "simply not enough".

By the spring of 2023, he started to believe that people at a local market and the bar where he enjoyed playing cornhole were gossiping about him and labeling him a pedophile.

[77][78] The Army Reserve specifically told law enforcement that he threatened to "shoot up" a military base in Saco, Maine.

He was removed from training exercises, and the New York State Police responded and transported Card to West Point's Keller Army Community Hospital for psychological evaluation.

[75] Card returned home on August 3, 2023, and the Army barred him from handling guns or ammunition, deeming him a "non-deployable" serviceman.

[75] In mid-September 2023, the Army Reserve requested that the Sagadahoc County Sheriff's Department conduct a well-being check on Card after he punched a fellow reservist who asked him to stop talking about "shooting up places and people".

Because Card was described by his commanders as a top marksman, the deputy requested backup from the Kennebec County Sheriff's Department, about 45 minutes away, and wrote in a report that "due to being in a very disadvantageous position we decided to back away".

[75][84] Neurologist Ann McKee, the director of the CTE Center, stated: "These findings align with our previous studies on the effects of blast injury in humans and experimental models.

While I cannot say with certainty that these pathological findings underlie Mr. Card's behavioral changes in the last 10 months of life, based on our previous work, brain injury likely played a role in his symptoms.

The seven-member commission, chaired by Daniel Wathen, reviewed thousands of pages of documents, gathered facts from many witnesses, and held public meetings.