Maine State Police's Lewiston after-action report points out flaws in deadly shooting

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The Maine State Police announced that an independent review of its Lewiston wide shooting after-action study has been completed by the New England State Police Administrators Conference.

The shooting connected Oct. 25, 2023 occurred successful a bowling alley and a barroom and grill. The gunman’s assemblage was recovered 2 days later, and helium had died by evident suicide.

Maine State Police Col. William Ross requested a reappraisal of the after-action study pursuing the wide shooting that near 18 radical dead.  

LEWISTON, MAINE MASS SHOOTING: AT LEAST 22 DEAD AS MANHUNT INTENSIFIES FOR PERSON OF INTEREST ROBERT CARD

Robert Card, the fishy successful Wednesday’s wide shooting successful Lewiston, Maine connected Wednesday, October 25, 2023.  (Maine Department of Public Safety)

The reappraisal released astir a twelvemonth to day pursuing the shooting was chaired by Vermont State Police Col. Matthew Birmingham and included recommendations connected transgression country protocols, bundle and training.  

In the report, many of the issues identified were antecedently brought up, but the reappraisal pointed retired that mistakes would ever hap successful events of this magnitude and that the reappraisal would lone service to constituent those mistakes retired truthful they tin beryllium learned from.

"We anticipation our reappraisal of the events of the days and months starring up to and aft October 25, 2023, provides immoderate answers to your questions and offers lessons learned that whitethorn assistance different survivors, victims, and communities successful the future. Sadly, contempt intensive efforts by instrumentality enforcement and the Commission, immoderate questions whitethorn ne'er beryllium answered. The limitations of the quality information and the deficiency of grounds prevented the Commission from definitively answering each your questions," the study stated.

US ARMY RESERVIST SAYS HE WARNED OF MASS SHOOTING BEFORE GUNMAN'S ATTACK IN LEWISTON, MAINE

Vehicles thrust past a motion successful Lewiston, Maine, connected October 27, 2023, successful the aftermath of a wide shooting. Hundreds of constabulary successful the US authorities of Maine hunted October 26, 2023, for a fugitive gunman who killed 18 radical astatine a bowling alley and a bar, arsenic President Joe Biden mourned "yet different senseless and tragic wide shooting." Police named the fishy arsenic 40-year-old Robert Card -- seen successful surveillance footage pointing a semi-automatic firearm arsenic helium walked into the Sparetime Recreation bowling alley.  (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

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Ross said helium and the squad volition utilize this arsenic a instrumentality to statesman making improvements.

 "Continued training, argumentation reappraisal and collaboration with spouse agencies from crossed the archetypal responder spectrum is imperative and volition beryllium ongoing," a connection said.