The Army reserves requested a welfare check on Robert Card after another soldier was worried he wanted to commit a mass shooting.Thirteen people were injured in the Oct. 25 shootings at a bar and a bowling alley.
Biden and first lady Jill Biden will go Friday to pay their respects to the victims, meet with first responders and others and will "grieve with families and community members," the White House said in a statement.Reena Roy has more on what we know about the victims of the Lewiston, Maine mass shooting so far.
"Unfortunately, this type of trip by the President has become too, too familiar. Far too familiar. Too many times the President and the First Lady have traveled to communities completely torn apart by gun violence," Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday.of an apparent suicide after a dayslong manhunt that led officials to cancel school and order residents to stay indoors.
Several thousand people attended vigils for the victims over the weekend, and residents started returning to work and school on Monday after stay-at-home orders were lifted.Biden was alerted about the shooting as he hosted a White House state dinner honoring the bonds between the United States and Australia. He later stepped out of the event to speak by telephone with Maine Gov. Janet Mills and the state's representatives in Congress.
In a written statement, the president decried the "senseless and tragic" shooting and urged Republicans in Congress to help pass legislation that would outlaw assault-style weapons and high capacity magazines, enact universal background checks, require that guns be stored safely and end immunity from liability for gun manufacturers.