- An Army reservist testified on Thursday about Robert Card’s mental decline and the warning he issued a month before the shooting in Lewiston, Maine.
- Sean Hodgson texted leaders of his reserve unit, advising them to change the gate passcode and arm themselves if Card showed up.
- Hodgson also voiced concerns about Card’s escalating delusional and violent behavior.
An Army reservist and friend of the gunman behind Maine’s deadliest mass shooting testified Thursday about his friend’s mental decline, describing publicly for the first time the warning he issued a month before the tragedy unfolded.
Sean Hodgson texted leaders of his reserve unit six weeks before the shooting that left 18 people dead and 13 wounded, telling them to change the passcode to the gate at their Army Reserve training facility and arm themselves if Robert Card showed up.
Hodgson told a panel investigating the mass shooting on Thursday that he issued the warning …