Officials said on Saturday that three relatives of Maine mass shooting suspect Robert Card were among the first to “positively identify” him after news broke out of a massacre that left 18 dead and 13 others injured.
Police previously said that shortly after photos of the suspected shooter were released to the public — which were posted just an hour after a 911 of the first shooting — Lewiston Police Department received a call identifying the man in photos as 40-year-old Card. Hours after Card was found dead from an apparent suicide following a dayslong manhunt, officials confirmed that his family members had identified him in the photos.
