Good morning, everyone. It is saturday, october 28th. Im amara walker. Ikt victor blackwell. Youre in the cnn newsroom. Any minute now well get an update on the Mass Shootings in maine, 18 people were killed, we will bring it to you as soon as it begins but for now, here is what we know. The accused shooter is dead. Police found his body last night, not far from his workplace. And investigators said that he left a note behind, that indicated that he did not expect to be alive by the time that note was found. The city of lewiston can focus now on saying goodbye to those who were lost in the shootings. All 18 victims have been identified. They include a father and son, while bowling, a married couple and members of the Deaf Community competing in a corn hole tournament. Shimon prokupecz is in lewiston, where the News Conference is about to begin. Reporter were waiting here, any minute, we should see the Police Chiefs from the Lewiston Police department, we believe and the Lisbon Police department, where the search has been taking place, and where the suspects, the shooters body was found, and we hope to get an update here shortly on exactly how they discovered the body, the time line, of the events, that ultimately led to discovery and perhaps, you know, there are so many questions about the investigation that authorities here are not really wanting to speak about, because they were concerned over the integrity of the investigation, and if there was going to be a capture, a prosecution, and understandably, they didnt want to talk a lot about the case. So hopefully today, this morning, we will get more information. Yesterday, when Police Updated us here, they didnt take many questions. They just came out and told us what happened, and that the discovery was made, but further details, that they reviewsed to provide and hopefully here refused to provide and hopefully here shortly, we will get those details when they walk through the doors and take the podium. Maybe this is something that well have to wait for the start of the presser to get, or maybe you know the answer to it, im going to ask it anyway, do we know if the area where cards body was found had been searched before . Yes, i was there on wednesday, so around 3 00 on wednesday, we saw Police Activity leading up to the street into the Recycling Plant area, where this discovery was made. We were told by the chief of police from lisbon there, and other officers on the scene that there was a building in that area that was connected to the shooter and that there was activity there, so we assumed that there was a search, something was going on, but we couldnt get down to the street because everything was closed. What was going on in that area, it was a building that police were aware of, they were aware that it was connected to the shooter, so there was certainly activity there. We were trying to get the answers to that yesterday, whether or not this area had been previously searched, because of the activity that we saw, and they refused to answer any of those questions. So maybe here this morning, i would expect that they will give us those answers. Obviously, a lot of questions about, you know, why that location. This is a place where he was fired from, were there any additional Attack Locations in his plans, were not sure if they will address those questions but im sure you will ask. What about this note, and maybe they will address this as well in the News Conference, but the note that was left behind, that indicated two investigators that he was going to take his own life . What was in that note that we know . Well, information, my understanding is that there was information in that note relating to his personal finances, and other information that he wanted Family Members to know about, and it was indicating that he was not expecting to survive by the time police made the discovery of the note. And that all kind of jives with sort of the activity that we saw on wednesday in that area that we were in, in lisbon, because it was sometime after the discovery of this letter that we started to see this uptick in Police Activity in the area, so perhaps police made the discovery, had found the letter, and then knew there was something in there that led them to the location, so it all is kind of connected, but the letter was talking about his personal finances, other things, information that he wanted the family, his family to have, and that he expected not to survive. All right. Shimon prokupecz, thank you so much for bringing there and we will bring you that News Conference when it happens live. Lets turn now to the war in israel and israeli troops have moved across the border into northern gaza, an Army Spokesman confirmed, an Idf Spokesperson confirmed, that infantry, and artillery and other units entered gaza last night just 12 hours after the idf said it was expanding Ground Operation, the scale of the Ground Offensive is still unclear. For weeks now Israeli Forces have been gathering at the border with gaza but when our crews went back to the staging area this morning, most of the tanks were gone. Cnns jim sciutto is with us from northern israel. So jim, is it clear what we are watching . Is this the incursion that leads to the seizure of territory that the idf said that it would attempt . We dont know, frankly, because the idf is providing only very limited information about the scope, the number of forces inside gaza, what period of time and what the ultimate goal is. Were basically reporting what we can see, which is a large scale aerial operation, yesterday air strikes, Artillery Fire, and then a ground incursion today, which Israeli Defense forces spokes people have confirmed is under way. What we are seeing in this region is deep opposition to an expansion of the Ground Offensive by Israeli Forces inside gaza. I had the opportunity a short time ago to speak to the Foreign Minister of jordan, of course, close u. S. Ally about, list reaction. Here is what he had to say. It is going to make it impossible, with the number of casualties, it is going to sink us deep near this abyss, and then what . Another war to be added to the many wars weve had in the region . That saves no one. Jordan Sponsored A Resolution at the u. N. Yesterday, calling for an immediate truce in gaza. That resolution was adopted, it is a nonbinding one, and the u. S. Voted against it. Along with israel and some other countries. Though some european allies voted for, it there were a number of abstentions, i asked the Jordanian Foreign minister for what the intention was of that resolution, and his reaction to those who opposed it. I think people would have to be insane not to support what were saying, which is lets vote for peace, lets save lives, more killing is not going to help anybody. And this is a conversation that were having with all of our friends and partners in the region and beyond. You heard the words, him saying it would be insane to oppose a truce right now, given civilian casualties on the ground. But of course, as weve been reporting, Israeli Defense forces are confirming that an expanded Ground Operation is indeed under way, and of course, victor and amara, we will bring you details as we see them. Jim sciutto, joining us from northern israel, thank you very much. The idf has been launching heavy and continuous air strikes throughout the night and into the morning. Idf reserve soldiers call it the most intense night of the bombing conflict so far. The video of the destruction there, as people are just in shock, and digging through the rubble. Cnns Jeremy Diamond is joining us from israel, along the gaza border. What is the situation there . Well, weve been hearing over the last several minutes, continuous Artillery Fire outgoing from here towards gaza. And we are also hearing some small arms fire coming from the direction of gaza. If you lack over my Left Shoulder here, actually, what you can see right now appears to be some kind of a smoke screen that is being deployed. We saw that tactic also being used by the idf last night, as they began launching this expanded Ground Operation, as the idf is calling this. What we know, overnight, we heard intense bombardment, intense artillery strikes, toward the gaza strip, perhaps the most intense and sustained bombardment of gaza that we have heard in the three weeks since this war began. And today, we are getting more details about exactly what the strikes were. The idf is saying that they carried out strikes on 150 underground targets, inside of northern gaza, and they also said that they killed the commander of hamas naval forces. Now, today, earlier today, what we did is at daylight, we were able to drive by these various Staging Grounds where earlier this week, we saw hundreds of tanks, armored personnel carriers, and those d9 bulldozers, all stationed, ready to go, facing in the direction of gaza. And what we found today was very different. What we found was many of those fields that were being used as Staging Grounds for those Armored Vehicles were emptied out. Partially emptied out. Trash was instead, lying on the fields, from those troops who had left. Supposedly to go towards gaza. We also saw logistics vehicles and armored personnel carriers, heading in the direction of gaza, and also some tanks that were actually returning from the area of the gaza strip, back towards those Staging Grounds, just north of gaza. And so what that tells us is that this is still a very, very dynamic situation. We know from earlier today that the idf spokesman said that fighting is ongoing inside of gaza. Which is different of course from what happened the previous two nights, when the idf did send tanks rolling into gaza, and what we heard the next morning was that those tanks, those troops, had returned over into israeli territory, and so what we are seeing right now, is something very different. With the fighting continuing, nearly 24 hours later. All right, Jeremy Diamond, thank you very much. Im joined now by Foreign Affairs columnist for bloomberg, bobby gersch, hi there, bobby. Thanks for joining us this morning. The situation from gaza as you know, the food and fuel, if it hasnt run out, it is running very low, right now people are sitting in the dark as we heard, communications are blacked out. This as, you know, the idf Ground Forces as we are hearing are in gaza right now. They entered from the north as a part of the expanded Ground Operation. In terms of president bidens unwavering public support for israel, do you get a sense that there may be limits when there are conversations behind the scenes . Well, the white house has been making clear that there are limits. The white house has said openly that it is, it is trying to restrain israel from making a full land operation, trying to explain why the israelis are describing this one, not quite in those open terms, and a slightly more, slightly heavier operation than the ones that have gone before. The white house is also saying very clearly that there has to be humanitarian support extended to the palestinians, particularly those who are in southern part of gaza, away from gaza city, and closer to the israeli border. The white house has been drawing its red lines very clearly. The israelis have been quite close to those red lines, and testing just how much patience the white house will have on these kinds of operations. Do you expect things to change when it comes to the white houses support, though, once there is a ground invasion, and this red line, at what point do you consider them crossed . Well, it is the question of when the white house decides that a red line has been crossed. Weve seen this before, of course, back in the obama administration, when they drew a red line famously, the president drew a red line, in the conflict in syria and then allowed the line to be crossed and did nothing about it. So biden has painted himself into a corner in the context of American Politics by saying were completely behind israelis no matter what. I have to cut you off, im sorry. We have to go live to maine for the News Conference about the mass shooting. Lets listen in. The consideration of the victims and their families, were requestsing that the asl interpreter is in all frames for Language Access here in maine and in the u. S. They have grieving and they have the right to know the latest information in asl. Thank you for that. All right. We do appreciate your patience and your professionalism. I know youve been with us for a few days away from your families tucked in here, in lewiston, working with us, so were going to go ahead and kind of focus again on the operational side of the house. Its intended that im your only speaker for this morning. I suppose if we do get some q a, that somebody else i think can answer readily, well do that, and well do the best we can for you, and for the state of maine, and the community here. So i do want to start right at 7 45 last night, when mr. Card was located deceased, from a selfinflicted Gunshot Wound. And that did occur at the Maine Recycling Corporation and thats at 61 Capital Avenue in lisbon. And we will try to put that right up here on the screen. The audio visual is a little better than the chalkboard we had on day one. So this should show a map, a google map, location of where the Maine Recycle Corporation is located at. And i wanted to show this, this is a primary reason that were late, because we were trying to get this switched over from google maps to something that you could utilize. So when you look at this, theres a triangle here, that stop right there. Yes, exactly. That triangle is in fact the Maine Recycling Corporation. And if we go down across Capital Avenue to where that circle is, that is the Overflow Parking Location where he was found deceased in a trailer. So i think thats important. Because we were asked some good questions last night, that we did not have the answers to, at that point, so that particular location was cleared twice previously, and it was cleared in that triangle. It was cleared where the business is located. And that was cleared by chief mcgee and the Lisbon Police department and individuals there, earlier, and joint, or a combination Tactical Team, later in the afternoon. The owner of that facility did a great job, because he was like, you know, this individual knows the property, he could be tucked in the back of one of these trailers, because theyre full of recycled metal and all of this stuff, you can crawl over the top, and we cleared the trailer. We cleared trailers that were there on that business footprint. Nobody had any idea that across the street, across Capital Avenue, there is an overflow parking lot which is the recycling corporation property. So the owner was very diligent to say, did you clear those trailers . Well, what trailers are you talking about . So then the followup is with the Tactical Team commanders to say, okay, tell me exactly where you were at. And then they were doing the same thing. We were looking at our time line, we cleared trailers, we didnt clear those, lets go back. So the Maine State Police Tactical Team ultimately were the ones that located the body within one of those trailers. And this is a tractortrailer style, you know, you picture that 18wheeler, this is what a trailer would look like. A box trailer, is where he was located, right in the back of that. Some of those trailers are locked. Some of those trailers arent. So he was found inside one of those boxes that was unlocked from the outside. And that you could probably picture that from just your experience on the street. Right . Youve seen those kind of things before. So thats where we found the body last night. A little bit of updates in that regard, were going to be there probably through the end of the day, making sure that we process that particular scene. And well also be at the bar and grill and the Bowling Alley, probably through the rest of the weekend. Were currently working that now. And we will definitely be working that tomorrow. And at this point, that is heavily resourced by Evidence Response Team members. So ets are processing physical evidence at those locations. And again, as weve discussed, there is a reason for that. That is a lot of materials still there, to work. With and we expect it will work through the weekend there, and i would also just tell you that the behindthescenes stuff is a very intensive man hunt, incredible amount of resources invested. Once he is located last night, truth be told, we got some people some rest. Hopefully you got some sleep last night. So we sent some people home. Theyre back in this morning, all in, for today. Were going to send them back to get rest tomorrow and see their families and back on monday, the entire time to include our partners which i will take more time today to make sure that i acknowledge everybody that i can. So theyll be back in on monday to continue their work, whether it is scene cleanup, the continuing to do interviews, overall, we received 821ish, as of a little while ago, tips and leads, so we continue to work those. The digital tip line, that Video Tip Line that you were so helpful in putting the information out on, ultimately we are at 197 of those leads. And thats information that was uploaded to that system. We got about a dozen or so Search Warrants that are completed. So signed and impounded. Im pounded meaning that you wouldnt have access to them at this point. But given the circumstances here, right, because we dont envision a trial of any sort for anybody thats involved here, there will be a release of information i would expect after those affidavits, that impound is pulled, there is going to be a lot of information that is going to be there for you down the road. Again, we will try to do the best we can today, now that that piece of this event is done. And hes been found. Were certainly able to answer additional questions. Everything we say can be interpreted by the suspect. They just said this about me, im going to do that. And again, based on the violent nature of what occurred here, traumatic incidents that occurred here in lewiston, we were certainly concerned right into the last second, that we didnt know what this individual is going to do next, or where he was going to do it. So we need to be very cautious about that. We also immediate to be very cautious, when you talk about trials, information, and mike is at the podium and he said this, and then a trial, two years later, didnt you say this, and now you think this, because you found it in the cell phone, all of those things, we need to make sure that we are not being prejudicial for trials and for the court process. So again, from our end, about a dozen or so of those warrants, and everybody will continue to work on that. I think theres some Additional Information that i had mentioned i was going to speak to you about today. And that is the addition of a Family Assistance Center, and that Family Assistance Center is going to be located at the Lewiston Armory, 65 central avenue, right here in lewiston. And thats intended to be a onestop shop kind of thing, one central space, for victims and their support persons, to gather, so that they dont have to make multiple stops, multiple different agencies, to seek assistance. Now, this particular location is open for individuals who were present at the shooting site. So whether you were a victim, physically stating that you were injured during this event, or you were there, and traumatized, and either one of those situations, the Family Assistance Center will be a good spot for those individuals to go. I will say that this is probably again common sense but the media will not be allowed to enter the Family Assistance Center. We want these folks focused on healing, not on am i on camera, what are people going to think, i dont want anybody to know i was there, so if you could do me a favor and help me out with that, that would be greatly appreciated. Now, thats the Maine State Police working with the maine attorney generals office, the red cross, and the fbi Victim Services division, who have been credible, and theyre opening that space, that space actually opened this morning, at 10 00, and theyre going to be operational for the foreseeable future from 10 00 a. M. To 7 00 p. M. , at the Lewiston Armory at 65 central avenue. A separate location or a separate site, providing Mental Health assistance, located at the ramada inn here in lewiston, and that created for the larger community. And again, as we discussed, we had the scene, the entire city is a scene, right . People who are traumatized and i know somebody that knows somebody that knows something or i walked to that and i have been to that bar before, i bowled there, that wasnt my night but you want to talk to somebody about that, thats going to be at the ramada inn, so youre not specifically a victim, a specific victim of what occurred, or somebody that was present when this consioccurred. And i mentioned that, and i mentioned that in this setting, because as these things involve, we will have the investigation and this will slowly evolve over into a wellness and resiliency Conversation Fork the victims and the community and others and thats the information that we want to make sure folks are getting so they can receive the help that they need. I would also say once we clear these scenes, and i want to make sure i acknowledge this individual, mike halloran, a retired Law Enforcement officer, owns a Trauma Service cleanup company, and mike gives us a shout and when you clear those scenes, im willing to come out and donate the services of my company to clean all of these crime scenes. Which as you can imagine, or probably cant imagine, is an incredibly traumatic process to begin. With so we clear the scenes, we have all of the evidence that we need, this company is going to come up, the Trauma Service cleanup company, with mike halloran. They will do the cleanups and then we will release those locations back to the owners so theyre not forced to deal with that first thing when they walk back into something, their hopes and dreenls, i always wanted to open a bar and they will be surrounded by the chaos that would have occurred that evening. So that will be the next steps there, so thats probably early next week. So i gave you a little bit of information referencing the detectives and major crime units and all of our federal partners working with us there. We will be transitioning from the current command post back to the Lewiston Police department. As you might imagine, the parking lot was a little bit different than it was yesterday, right . So our command post, the next big step for the Incident Management Team is to demobilize. I think when these things happen, the first piece is we dont have enough people to do the work we need to do. And then the second piece is we have so many people to do the work we can, do how can we track them and feed them and where are they at and are they safe. And we will be fully invested in demobilization of that location and the personnel involved throughout today and into tomorrow. I do want to touch on a couple of other questions that have been asked along the way. And with clearance from our prosecutors and our detectives, were certainly more comfortable answering now, based on the current outcome of what happened last night. So one thing, theres been a number of completely legitimate questions about a note that was found in his residence. So this is a paper style note, im not going to read it to you verbatim, but what it is, is, its a note to a loved one, and it is saying that this is the pass code for my phone, this is the bank account numbers, and i wouldnt describe it as an explicit suicide note, but the tone and tenor was that the individual was not going to be around and wanted to make sure that this loved one had access to his phone and whatever was in his phone, and were working on that now, to get into the phone, thats one of those Search Warrants, thats one of those very specialized skillsets that our folks have, and then the bank codes. To make sure that that happens. Thats not uncommon in suicide situations. You get long notes, you get very setup scenarios, but thats something that you asked about, and i do appreciate that, and again, we can talk about that a little bit more now. There was a firearm found in the white subaru station wagon. That was a long gun style. I do not have the make and model. You can ask me is that an ar15, is that this, i dont know that, and i was asked specifically yesterday, did they find a gun, did we find a gun in the car cans be and we did, and that was a long gun and to my understanding that was the only firearm found inside the car at that time. I would expect again, based on the investigation and the outcome, that when these impounded impounded affidavits are released, they will have Search Warrant information, and all kinds of stuff, what we find, how many of this and that, and there will be more details, did you find guns in the house, did you find guns on him, so that is something that weve been, that weve been asked about, and i wanted to make sure that we covered that as well. Another question that i had some conversation around this morning, you can talk about, is there a motive here, right . I think clearly, there is a Mental Health component to this. We still need to do some research around trying to get access to Certain Records and things of that nature, which again you can probably imagine is not as simple as calling somebody and saying hey, can you send me this thing. But what i would say is that based on what ive heard through conversations this morning, i dont see, or im told that we dont have access to any forcibly committed for Treatment Information Reference to mr. Card, okay . So you can volunteer as an example to go to a facility and seek treatment for months on end. But if youre not forcibly committed to seek that treatment, and very specific to treatment, right, not forcibly taken for an evaluation, an evaluation is completely different than treatment. So there are a lot of very specific criteria around firearms and are you a possessed person, prohibited person, rather, and what that looks like, so in this scenario, we have not seen at this point, i have not seen to this point that mr. Card was forcibly committed for treatment. And if that didnt happen, then the mix check, you can go into the Firearms Dealer who does all of their work and the Background Check is not going to ping that this individual is prohibited. And something that is incredibly important for us to say, and for me to say, and i find myself saying it on a regular basis, just because there appears to be a Mental Health nexus to this scenario, the vast, vast, vast majority of people, the vast majority of people with a Mental Health diagnosis will never hurt anybody. They wont hurt themselves. They are not a danger to the community. Based on percentages alone, theres a bunch of folks in here that have a Mental Health diagnosis, i know Law Enforcement officers that have a Mental Health diagnosis, that doesnt mean theyre a danger to the community. We certainly have people that reach that crisis level, when that does occur, and we deal with those folks on a regular basis. Sometimes through in voluntarily forcible commitments, right. And sometimes not. Sometimes there are Different Levels of that Mental Health system. And thats a whole different conversation that can be quite lengthy and i can tell you that Law Enforcement has been involved at this point for decades and heavily involved over the last 15 years or so. So i think that is the information that i know i wanted to come back and give you, and i would also just say again that this information that we think we can give lawfully, and in truth, are Subject Experts around prosecutions and all of these other things, i may want to tell you something, but i cant tell you, and thats just been the Nature Of The Beast along the way a little bit. I also want to mention this. This is a big deal. I was asked about cooperation at one point. And this family has been incredibly cooperative with us. Truth be told, i think the first three people that called us to positively identify this individual based on the photos that were released were Family Members. And unfortunately, what happens in a scenario like this, is that this happens, theyre connected to that family and that family has taken a great deal of grief, threats, people hanging out at their houses, and saying do they know, is it their fault, are they enabling, all of those things. Our investigation would have been incredibly, it would have been detrimental if theydon come forward immediately to let us know who this individual was and how difficult of a decision is that to make when youve lost this many people, it is not that difficult, but you can imagine, if my Family Member was involved in that traumatic event, and i want to let people know. And so they should be acknowledged in that. Again, i wont specify exactly who the Family Members were, but as a whole, we found them to be very, very cooperative. I will also state that, you know, from an after action perspective, you can imagine that all of the Law Enforcement officers, the various agencies involved, the rest of the Public Safety world, we will be having a number of afteraction reports. Sl lessons learned. We dont want this to happen to anybody ever again but we learned as a state from other communities around the country where this has happened, other communities internationally where these things have happened, and they put out Best Practices and this is what has happened and what he what we are going to do next, so i would expect those instances to condition. None of those, certainly from the department of Public Safety are regulatory authorities, hey, we have authority over what happened over here and we are going to act on that, so there is a time and place for all of those things, to include a Mental Health system, a military component, all of those Different Things that has their own networks to regulate and make sure that theyre checking their own processes. And i think thats rightfully so. So i think what i want to make sure i do, and i want to make sure we switch that screen back over to that victim screen, to make sure that we all remember why were here, and why we do the work that we do. And i also want to state that, because i think when we leave here today, im not expecting future briefings or Anything Else, and i do not want to leave our partners out of this. Ive discussed them every time weve talked but if you talk about chief mcgee and the Lisbon Police department and all of the work they have done, the Strong Focus On Lisbon kind of morphed, or lewiston and morphed over to lisbon and the vehicle, and the chief has stepped up, and the community has stepped up across the board and they deserve a lot of credit as a Strong Partner in this entire thing. And the New Hampshire state police, i cant tell you, i mean that helicopter was floating over us very, very quickly, and there is the naushz state police and Tactical Teams and detectives, command staff members, that came to us immediately, you know, across the board. From our federal partnerships, you know what happens in these is, that everybodys got incredibly long titles that are accurate and they mean a whole lot, but when you talk about the atf, you talk about hsi, and you talk about daechld, ad. E. A. And you talk about the fbi, you talk about first name deals and you talk about kevin and jim and you talk about mike, and joey, and thats who we are, now, right . And it is going to be valuable in the future to have that basi Something Else happens, you know, across the board. And certainly, the Maine State Police as the lead major crimes and investigators on the scenario, have been in the forefront of this since the very, very beginning. And you know, we have our elected officials here from various communities, we have if w, my fellow commissioner, judy kamuso is here and lets not forget that hunting is open today and make sure we discuss that for sure. And i guess i would just close on, that acknowledgment of the chief here, and the work that him and his team have done. They have made their community proud, and they have made the state of maine proud. And we are lucky to have them as part of the department of Public Safety. So with that in mind, im going to try to do some q a. Well see how this goes. I wrote myself a note, im supposed to repeat the question before i answer it, because nobody can hear it. So right here, maam. Talk about [ Inaudible Question ] i cant identify any of the the victims at this point. My understanding is that the last update that i received, that there were three people in critical care, and i dont have any more specifics referenced to the remaining 10, in that scenario. And as you might imagine, these individuals passed away because of this crime, and these other folks have to live with it for the rest of their lives so im not sure they want to be identified in a sense. Weve had victims families with Media Members and others parked across the street, they feel nervous, they feel scared, and so were not in a position that were going to identify them. And sir, right here. Yes. [ Inaudible Question ] i would say that the Mental Health aspect of this, theres a piece of that, whether it is paranoia, theres some conspiracy theorists piece, i think what ive read and what ive seen is that the individual felt like people were talking about him, may even appear that there were some voices in play here, and we dont believe that any of that is accurate, and i think that led them, him specifically back to those two specific locations, and it also led us, where he is going next, he used to work here, he used to be there and what does that ultimately look like so i think thats a valid question. Right here. [ Inaudible Question ] there was an Employment Relationship there at some point. I dont know if he was currently employed or not. And i dont think im in a position to answer that. I would kind of lean towards the Business Owner and hes been part of this very forthcoming, that got him, got us back to that location to check. So i dont want to speak on his behalf of exactly where mr. Card or what his status was at the end. [ Inaudible Question ] i dont know that yet. And i think that comes down to the autopsy in many ways. They say, you know, he passed away of this, cause and manner of death, and then they will be able to give a range of some sort of when, how long hes been passed away, but i dont know how exactly tight thats going to be. Sir, did you have a question . That was the one. Thats a twofer. Yes, maam . [ Inaudible Question ] yes, sure, so you know, from a discovery standpoint, the status of the body itself, when youre talking about a few days, theres not a great deal of decomposition in that time frame. So it was a selfinflicted Gunshot Wound. I will tell you there was a couple of firearms found at the scene. I wont be able to tell you exactly what that was. The one picture that i saw looked like he had the same sweatshirt on that he had, the picture that we put out, at the Bowling Alley, that appeared to be the sweatshirt that he was wearing at that time. He was found closer to the sliding door component of the trailer, so he wasnt buried back further. When that happened, you know, when he took his own life, i dont know the answer to that. And again, we will probably have a rangeish from the medical Examiners Office but not something i know right now. Right here. Yes. [ Inaudible Question ] yes, super question. So again, a bit of an anomaly from the scenario, right, we have two locations, he escaped both, parked his car some place else, i want that picture to stay up there, but if you look at that google map, from the lisbon location, but im going to screw up the boat launch terminology, what is that again . So that trail actually runs from that boat launch all the way along the river, and you can see it on that google map. So that comes all the way down along the river and that overflow parking lot is there, again, next to a business that he is familiar with as well. So there is a natural connection. Is that planned is, that not planned is, that a location of convenience . I dont know the answer to that. But thats kind of how that went down. But right in the back there. [ Inaudible Question ] no. No, it had not. Yes, sir . Two firearms were found with him, so you kind of does that mean there were three firearms, one found in the car and then two when he was found. Yes, one in the car, two on his body. With the one in the car it was a long gun. It was a rifle of some sort. I dont know the make and manufacturer. [ Inaudible Question ] i dont have that information. Theyre still working that scene right now. So thats not something i will clarify for now. Right here, maam. Im going to kind of work my way, i will try to get to everybody, if everybody is cooperative and we will try to get as many as we can. [ Inaudible Question ] i just read my note that said repeat the question which i havent done yet. Can you ask that one more time . [ Inaudible Question ] is there video where we confirm there is video of the suspect Playing Cornhole at the bar . No, i have not seen that. There is a lot of video yet to view from the locations as well as those 197, i dont know how often this individual freaked the bar, if theres a frequented the bar, if there is a timestamp when that would have occurred, i dont know the answer to that at all. [ Inaudible Question ] i think that theres a connection to all of those locations. I think both of those spots i will tell you from a community standpoint, a lot of people in this community were familiar with both spots, right . So this thing happens, and everybodys like i was there once before, my family visits that spot. So there was a lot of that that was going on and i do believe there was a connection, as if this gentleman had been in both of those spots. Do you want to give it another shot . You have been talking about what he was doing in the hours leading up to the shootings, did he case the locations at all . Was he driving around . Can you shed any light on that . So we havent focussed a lot of time on the time frame leading up to the crimes themselves. And no, i really cant flush that out. I do think that what happens from here is those neighborhood canvasses, when we say okay, this happened, we know this call came in at 6 56, we know that call came in at 7 08, can we follow that suspect vehicle, that white subaru station wagon, can we track that with video in 100 different locations, and seeing those range cams, convenience stores, some place out front and can we time gap that so we know exactly what happened and we left that location in this car and we know somehow he ended up at the boat launch, can we try to figure out what that looks like, so i dont have any information, was he casing the place that day, or clearly, he had some knowledge of these locations previously, however. [ Inaudible Question ] of course. Yes, absolutely. Thats part of that, again, hes dead, we know where hes located at, we can start working with the victims and we can also start digging in on all of these other things. Sir . [ Inaudible Question ] theres none that im aware of. We had people check that have told me that they havent found those. So if they exist, im sure we will continue to dig and try to find them but i havent found them. Were learning they may be from a local source prior to Law Enforcement if you found that [ Inaudible Question ] so thats a pretty good hypothetical, from whoever your source. Is we will have to look at the actual snapshot in time. The yellow flag law in the state of maine is very specific about an individual who is in protective custody, from Law Enforcement, to begin with. And do we have probable cause to believe that they are in possession. They could be in possession of dangerous weapons. So if we meet those criteria, then you can take an individual in for a yellow flag assessment, a Weapons Restriction Order assessment, and at that time, your criteria changed from likelihood of a serious harm to likelihood of foreseeable harm. There is a little, its close. Work to try to prevent [ Inaudible Question ] i will tell you that the Weapons Restriction Order in maine has been utilized 82 times to this point. It went into effect on july 1 of 2020. I know that because ive read every single one of those reports. And have been involved in that process on a regular basis. Just gave a presentation last friday to a group of social workers to make sure that were putting that information out there, as much as humanly possible. It has been effective to this point. And it is certainly something that were always looking a, can we tweak it, can we make things better, but it has been utilized and to this point it has been effective. Maam, you do you have a question. You talked a lot about the Mental Health component and part of his motivation is, there Anything Else you can tell us in likely with a motivation with the targets of the Bowling Alley and the bar . I think what we know, we have a lot of work to do yet on phones and technology. Are we going to find a concrete motive, that says this is what im going to do and this is why. At this point, we certainly know that theres a strong Mental Health cloud over this, what happened, the two tragic scenarios at both of those locations, we know that there is definitely a Mental Health nexus to that. Specifically, is there another reason . When you talk about pair know knowa, youre talking about individuals in crisis, theres a lot there. What was actually happening, versus what they perceived to be happen can. So those things are definitely on our radar. But in the back, maam . I will come up to you, sir. Before you found the body, did you have other leads directing to you [ Inaudible Question ] can you confirm you believe he walked the trail from the parking lot to the boat ramp . The two questions there, did we have additional leads reference to the overflow lot where he was ultimately located and can we confirm that he walked . Number two, we havent found a vehicle or any other, or bicycle, there is no other information to lead us to believe that there was anything but walking down. I suppose something could happen to lead us in that direction. So whatever that is, 800 and something leads and tips, the primary reason we were back in that location is because, i will say this, from a community policing, from a relationship standpoint, the owner of a business calls his police chief and says hey, you know, i want somebody to make sure that theyre clearing that. Thats good cop 101, right . To have an automatic connection with somebody in your community, thats why the additional followups occurred. Because we had, again, searched and documented, theres logs and all of this stuff of when we were there, who was there and what did they do, which allowed us to do the followup work to say, look, did you, did you check across the street. Well whats across the street . There are a dozen of businesses that surround this thing. And nothing that says thats the recycling corporation. So the owner was diligent, as was chief mcgee, and in passing on that information to the command post to be checked. Sir . Yes. [ Inaudible Question ] were they used to try to pick up his scent before he was found in that trailer . What location had you lost i dont know the specific answer to that. I would think that they would be, but i dont want to guess. Canines are a standard part of, we lost somebody here, where did they go, we have tactical canines that are attached to those various teams, they have a lot of great dogs that are out there working the streets, so i dont know the answer, but i can only imagine from a best practice standpoint, sure, that of course, they would do that. Did you have another question . Can you clarify [ Inaudible Question ] we have not. There has been no Additional Information. However, we know that there are two specific target locations. He did go one to the other. He ditched his car in a specific spot. Again, maybe we will find some Additional Information in one of these devices that says this is what my plan was. All we can do is look at what actually occurred. So there is nothing there, how long was it planned, what did that look like, i dont know that right now. Maam, did you have a question in the back . Yes. I wondered how exactly [ Inaudible Question ] how exactly did he die . So the question was how exactly did he pass away. That was a selfinflicted Gunshot Wound is the apparent reason for his death. [ Inaudible Question ] i wont give a specific location i dont think for today. Maam, right here. Are investigators still actively collecting evidence . I know yesterday you said it could take a few more days. So i heard through the weekend that both of those locations, and then we will transition over to that cleaning and some of that other information that i put out. Sir . [ Inaudible Question ] i dont have the information there, because one may be a Search Warrant on a cell phone, right, one may be a house, so i dont have a breakdown of exactly what warrants are going where, and what that looks like. Some of those have been served. Some of those we have. And theyre kind of cue as part of a punch list, and what were doing and where were going next. Yeah . [ Inaudible Question ] i cant speak to that specifically. I think that would speak to premeditation and something as a motive Above And Beyond the Mental Health crisis that we know exists but all of those followups are continued because the victims themselves clearly passed away and were also talking to everybody that he ever knew, right, someone he worked, with somebody he was in the military, with what did you know and how and all of those kinds of things. Sir . Thanks for answering all of these questions, first. And i think this is important. [ Inaudible Question ] im wondering as you sit hear today [ Inaudible Question ] the question comes more to mental resources and services in that area, is doesnt seem like [ Inaudible Question ] we didnt really see a surge of resources in that area, there was a much bigger presence right. [ Inaudible Question ] im wondering if there is any [ Inaudible Question ] so the question is, do we think now, we surge Additional Resources in that area, either those two searches or otherwise an i think we had a great deal of resources in play. I think we had resources all over the place. Resources that maybe you saw, maybe you didnt see, 24 7, 365, out on the street. I know that chief mcgee was working with fellow chiefs, for bringing him Additional Resources. Ive seen that email string. Like hey, were trying to have twoperson cars, from a safety perspective, we want to make sure that were properly staffed across the board, and another incredibly positive sbaeaspect this, that search that Chief Mcgee Led is one of his officers who found an open door to that building. And people go to bed, and whether they can sleep or not, there are officers crawling through the backyards and the neighborhoods making sure theyre safe. And i will, for the rest of my life, looking at this event, could we have done this different, could we do that different, i think we had resources in play, and our hearts go out, the reason we do this work, is because of the trauma that it has caused to our communities, all communities, and when these things happen, so it is a completely legitimate question, but not one that i think was resource intensive for that particular area. But sir, why dont you follow up. Ill give you that one. [ Inaudible Question ] no. [ Inaudible Question ] so Chief Mcgee Led that one search. And then there was also a combined Tactical Team that did an additional search. But again, the reason that we were late, and we wanted to put that map up there, is because if i told you, well, that they didnt know about the overflow location, i wanted to be able to show you why that is. Right . There is an area across the road, there is an overflow parking lot that i dont think me personally would have actually connected that this business is connected to that. If its all in the same lot, because the Tactical Team commanders as an example, did you check trailers. And yes, we checked the trailers that were there. And then the owner, again being diligent and knowing his property, did you check those trailers. Which trailers . The ones across the road down across central avenue. And the answer is no, we didnt go over there, thats not what we were there to do. So i think this did do their due diligence. Sir in the middle. Two things to ask you on. In terms of the note, is there a time line in when you think it was dated, was it the date of thoongs . And secondly on that trailer, do you think he may have doubled back there, and maybe missed him the first time possibly because you didnt check but maybe he wasnt there . So i think two different questions there, one referenced the timing of the note, and then how he got to that trailer, when he got to that trailer, all we can say for the note component is this is simply saying that we know when the initial shooting happened. I think as we try to backtrack through his day, which was an earlier question, can we identify where he was at a certain time, in comparison to the shooting at 6 56, and then know in the middle, so he must have had is there at some point have had it there at some point, maybe there is additional technology, maybe the phone stopped moving at a certain point, and maybe there is additional there, and when he got to the trailer, how he got to the trail her, maybe there i information there but i havent seen it yet. Has mr. Card had interaction with Law Enforcement in the area in the days, weeks, leading up to the tragedy. Somebody told me there was an Oui Investigation in 2007 but i will not go in depth because i dont know enough about that and i dont want to lead you astray or give you the wrong information, and that question was related to interaction and criminal history. Sir . With the atf, can you tell us or tell the commissioner so he can tell us the make and model of each of the three firearms that were covered and whether mr. Card obtained them illegally . I think the reality is we will have that information as part of the Search Warrants and part of the investigation. I dont have it right now. Thats my failing, not the atf, so i wont need the atf to tell us what the make and model is. We will go to the atf however, when were these firearms purchased and who purchased them. And we will go to that. That is a standard when a firearm is involved in an incident or a firing. [ Inaudible Question ] they can give you the same exact answer if you like. Would you like to answer that . So as far as the firearms, as far as i dont want to misidentify models or makes, but what i can tell you, as far as the firearms that were recovered, they do appear to be purchased by him. Legally . Legally purchased. [ Inaudible Question ] yes, some days before. There has been a number of firearms that have been recovered as part of this investigation, and some of them have been purchased very recently, and some of them years and years ago. Yes, sir, right here in the hat. Just a quick question. How many trailers are in that overflow lot . And do you know how many were locked and unlocked by any chance . 55 or 60 trailers parked back there. I dont know how many are locked versus how many are unlocked. Sorry, you have to go through each one of those and how long did it take to go through those . So i think the reality is there that these officers in the first three trailers located him, the Tactical Team ultimately located him and i think that third trailer. Do you have a question . [ Inaudible Question ] can you talk about when you searched that trailer and when you twice cleared the business so i dont know, chief, as far as youre clearing, do you want to step up and answer that . So as far as the trails, we located the car, and a perimeter was set up. As you can imagine. And i actually think it is less than a mile. Give or take. You can imagine where that business was that we spoke about tonight. Thats a Large Industrial park. Were not talking about a small area. Were talking about a Large Industrial park. But i can say there was numerous resources from the state, state police, all local agencies, all the sheriffs departments across the state of maine, federal agencies, we had helicopters in the air on that vehicle moments after i arrived and i was the second officer on the scene. I can tell you we flooded the area with resources. Someone brought up the question with canines. One thing with canines, we dont want to enter scents. We wont give you all of the details but i can tell you that there were a lot of teams that searched the area. On top of, i will add one thing, on top of it being an industrial park, numerous different businesses, obviously there is one business that were interested in, and our Tactical Teams did clear that building, recycling, and as was pointed out, there was an open door that one of the officers found on the overnights, again, and we cleared the building again with several agencies. But ill just point out this