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He warned authorities about the Lewiston, Maine, gunman, but they downplayed his texts

A police officer gives an order to the public Oct. 27 during a manhunt for Robert Card at a farm in Lisbon, Maine, following two mass shootings in nearby Lewiston. Despite the warning by Card's friend and fellow Army reservist Sean Hodgson, Army officials ultimately did not stop Card from committing Maine's deadliest mass shooting. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP)

Sean Hodgson watched and worried as his best friend of nearly two decades unraveled. His former roommate and fellow U.S. Army reservist's anger and paranoia were mounting, he had access to guns, and he refused to get help. So Hodgson did the hardest thing of his life: He sent a text about Robert Card to their Army supervisor.

"I believe he's going to snap and do a mass shooting," he wrote on Sept. 15.

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