Robert Card underwent a mental health evaluation last summer after he began acting erratically at an Army training facility in New York, officials have said.
's recent gun massacre had numerous run-ins with authorities and showed signs of committing a mass shooting, it has emerged.
A bulletin sent to police shortly after last week’s attack said Card had been committed to a mental health facility for two weeks after “hearing voices and threats to shoot up” the military base.At a news conference last week, police said there was no evidence that the 40-year-old Card - who was also a firearms instructor - had ever been involuntarily committed to a mental health facility, which could have made it illegal for him to possess guns.
A firearms store owner in Maine, Rick LaChapelle, told The New York Times and ABC News that he turned away Card just months before the mass shooting.On a form, Card was asked: "Have you ever been committed to a mental institution?" and answered yes, before he was then told he was not eligible to collect the silencer because of the answers on the form.
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