Mass shooter's family identifies missed warning signs before massacre left 18 dead, vows to raise awareness

One twelvemonth aft Army reservist Robert Card fatally changeable 18 radical and wounded 13 others in Lewiston, Maine, his household members are moving to bring consciousness to traumatic encephalon injuries.

Card, a firearms and manus grenade instructor, had documented intelligence wellness problems earlier helium opened fire connected a bowling alley and a barroom and grill utilizing a Ruger SFAR connected Oct. 25, 2023. Authorities located him 2 days aboriginal with a self-inflicted gunshot coiled to the head.

"We privation to marque definite this doesn't ever, ever hap again to different family." Nicole Herling, Card's sister, told NBC News successful an interrogation published Tuesday.

Herling and her hubby James person spoken publically astir their family's efforts to emblem Card's intelligence unwellness anterior to the massacre, which was Maine's deadliest wide shooting.

MAINE SHOOTING: ROBERT CARD'S NOTE TO LOVED ONES AND FINAL MOVEMENTS REVEALED

Members of the autarkic committee investigating the instrumentality enforcement effect to the wide shooting successful Lewiston, Maine, perceive arsenic Nicole Herling, bottommost left, sister of shooter Robert Card, testifies connected Thursday, May 16, 2024, successful Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Family members tried to telephone a veterans' situation hotline, arsenic good arsenic Card's military base, to get help.

A period earlier the massacre, section instrumentality enforcement adjacent responded to Card's residence aft receiving reports from his family, but officers did not marque contact, according to NBC.

A chap Army reservist adjacent told his superiors connected Sept. 15 that helium thought Card was "going to drawback and bash a wide shooting," according to grounds from Card's household during a proceeding earlier Maine's legislature successful May arsenic portion of an autarkic probe into the wide shooting.

TEXTS, LETTERS FROM MAINE MASSACRE SUSPECT'S ARMY COLLEAGUES WARNED HE THREATENED 'SHOOTING UP PLACES'

James Herling pauses his grounds portion recalling the infinitesimal helium realized the shooter was his brother-in-law, Robert Card, portion testifying connected Thursday, May 16, 2024 successful Augusta, Maine, during a proceeding of the autarkic committee investigating the instrumentality enforcement effect to the wide shooting successful Lewiston, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Researchers studied Card's encephalon aft the shooting and determined that helium had terrible traumatic encephalon injuries.

His household said during the May proceeding that researchers told them it was "one of the worst" cases of traumatic encephalon injuries they had seen, with Card perchance being exposed to thousands of explosions implicit the people of his vocation arsenic a hand-grenade instructor, according to NBC.

MAINE MASS SHOOTING SUSPECT ROBERT CARD FOUND DEAD WITH APPARENT SELF-INFLICTED GUNSHOT WOUND

In this representation taken from New York State Police assemblage camera video that was obtained by WMTW-TV 8 successful Portland, Maine, New York State Police interrogation Army reservist Robert Card, the antheral liable for Maine's deadliest wide shooting, astatine Camp Smith successful Cortlandt, New York, connected July 16, 2023. (WMTW-TV 8/New York State Police via AP, File)

The Herlings are moving connected starting a nonprofit organization, called Rising Over Brokenness, to amended the nationalist connected the dangers of encephalon injuries.

"We had recognized that we needed to assistance different families, particularly erstwhile we realized that Robbie's encephalon had been compromised," James Herling told NBC anchor Lester Holt.

MAINE POLICE AUDIO DESCRIBES FRANTIC MASS SHOOTING RESPONSE: 'MULTIPLE VICTIMS'

Rain-soaked memorials for those who died successful a wide shooting beryllium on the roadside by Schemengees Bar & Grille connected Oct. 30, 2023 successful Lewiston, Maine. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

The Herlings person besides listed the names of each 18 victims of the shooting connected the walls of their home. They besides person each 18 names lining their spot with bluish hearts, according to NBC.

"I don't ever privation to speech astir Robbie without acknowledging the symptom that he's caused to different people," Nicole Herling said.

MAINE AUTHORITIES THOUGHT CONFRONTING ROBERT CARD WOULD INFLAME SITUATION IN WEEKS BEFORE SHOOTING: VIDEO

Crime country portion inactive surrounds Schemengees Bar & Grille, Oct. 29, 2023 successful Lewiston, Maine. (AP Photo/Matt York)

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) successful August announced a Warfighter Brain Health Initiative that volition absorption connected "identifying and implementing champion practices to beforehand wide encephalon wellness and countering traumatic encephalon injury, including efforts to mitigate blast overpressure risks for work members."

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On Oct. 15, the families of 100 survivors and victims of the Oct. 25, 2023 wide shooting served a ineligible announcement expressing their intent to writer the DOD, Army and Keller Army Community Hospital for "negligence successful failing to respond to informing signs and an explicit menace to perpetrate a wide shooting, from Army Reserve Sergeant Robert Card," according to lawyer Travis Brennan.