Maine Shooter’s National Guard Unit Warned Cops They Feared He Would ‘Snap and Commit a Mass Shooting’

New reports are shedding light on troubling warnings Maine authorities received about a man who shot and killed 18 people in Lewiston last week, including a specific warning that he would commit a mass shooting.

Last Wednesday, 18 people were killed and 13 wounded during a mass shooting at a bar and bowling alley in Lewiston. Robert Card, a 40-year-old Army firearms instructor, was named by police as the shooter and after a wide-ranging manhunt kept the community in lockdown for days, he was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

It had been previously reported that Card had a documented history of mental illness, including spending “several weeks” in a mental health facility this summer after he started hearing voices and said he wanted to kill his fellow soldiers. CNN reported additional details about Card’s history and the questions it was raising for local residents seeking answers.

“There are a lot of questions surfacing about Card’s mental state and whether authorities knew about red flags that were obvious well before last week’s massacre,” said anchor Brianna Keilar. CNN obtained a National Guard statement that was sent to county sheriff’s office requesting a health and welfare check on Card.

According to the statement, said Keilar, “Card spent 14 days at a psychiatric hospital in July following an altercation that he got into with some fellow Guardsmen, and after his release he reportedly told another Guardsman that he was going to shoot up a military base and other locations as well.”

The statement also added that a friend of of shooter “feared Card was going to ‘snap and commit a mass shooting.'”

CNN law enforcement analyst Jonathan Wackrow said that the Maine National Guard should have been viewed as a “verified source,” and with such a specific warning that he could “snap and actually commit a mass shooting, that warning should have been escalated immediately to the highest levels of Maine law enforcement, both at the state level and at the local level and fully adjudicated and not let linger at all.”

Wackrow also noted other “behavioral red flags” that were reported about Card, including that he often answered the door “with a handgun in his hand, just out of sight.”

Keilar commented on Maine’s “yellow flag laws” and said that “it sounds like this person was exactly who this was intended to stop.”

Wackrow discussed the key points of Maine’s law and noted that there were “great intention” behind it, the “central question” is how law enforcement actually “engages with it and fully adjudicates any type of red flag that is raised.”

“The what if’s here are just glaring,” said Keilar.

Watch above via CNN.