Sagadahoc deputy says Army downplayed concerns about Lewiston shooter [Video]

The Sagadahoc County deputy who has faced criticism from all angles for failing to prevent Maine’s deadliest mass shooting says he could have done more – if Army Reserve leaders had told him the full truth about the danger Robert Card posed to the community.

In his first public interview about the welfare checks he attempted to conduct on Card more than a month before the shooting, Sgt. Aaron Skolfield told the Press Herald that he believes he did the right thing.

“I can only work with what I have,” he said during an interview at the Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Office headquarters in Bath on Monday. “And what I was given was not a complete picture.”

That picture has gotten clearer in the six months since the shooting that killed 18 people and injured 13 others. But as the public has learned more about what the Army and police knew …