Survivors of Maine’s deadliest mass shooting and grieving families of the victims are taking the federal government to court, saying the U.S. Army could have stopped the gunman before he killed 18 people in Lewiston in what they call “one of the most preventable mass tragedies in American history.”
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday on behalf of more than 100 people, accuses the Army of negligence for failing to act as reservist Robert Card’s mental health unraveled in the months before the October 2023 attack.
