Robert Card's friends and colleagues warned about Card's paranoid behavior, including a Sept. 15 text: “I believe he's (Card) going to snap and do a mass shooting.'
A member of Robert Card's Army Reserve unit sent a series of texts on Sept. 15 saying, 'I believe he's going to snap and do a mass shooting,' with a warning to be armed if anyone sees him. That was a little over five weeks before Oct. 25, when Card killed 18 and injured 13 more in the deadliest mass shooting in Maine's history.
Card has been hearing voices calling him a pedophile, saying he has a small d--- and other insults,' Cpl. Mote wrote in an email obtained by Fox News Digital . Card started hearing voices in the spring, Cpl. Mote wrote, and it 'has only gotten worse,' which led to physical confrontations with colleagues and even 'a longtime friend.' On July 15, while at West Point, he accused other soldiers of calling him a pedophile 'and said he would take care of it,' Cpl.
Once they got back to the motel, Card locked himself in his room and would not answer the door when they tried to make contact,' he wrote. The next morning, Cpl. Mote and other soldiers tried to convince Card to see a psychologist, which sparked another tense exchange, according to the email. But Card was ultimately taken to Four Winds Psychiatric Hospital in Katonah, New York, for treatment and evaluation, but Card 'never spoke, just stared through me without blinking.' Cpl.
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