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🗓️ 2 November 2023
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0:00.0 | From New York Times, I'm Michael Borrow. This is Adali. |
0:12.0 | Today, the mass shooting that occurred in me last week, |
0:16.0 | killing 18 people, was the country's deadliest of the year. |
0:22.0 | It may also have been one of the most avoidable. |
0:27.0 | My colleague, Nicholas Bogle-Borrow's, |
0:30.0 | on why so many warnings about the suspected gunman, |
0:34.0 | from so many people, failed to stop it. |
0:44.0 | It's Thursday, November 2nd. |
0:47.0 | Nick, in the days since this awful mass shooting in Maine, |
0:59.0 | you have been trying to reconstruct the warning signs. |
1:03.0 | That something was very wrong with the suspected shooter. |
1:06.0 | So tell us about what you have been finding. |
1:09.0 | Yeah, so in the days after this attack, |
1:11.0 | we've received a bunch of documents that show a series of |
1:14.0 | troubling interactions with the suspect whose name is Robert Card. |
1:18.0 | He's a 40-year-old Army reservist. |
1:21.0 | And the documents show that these warnings concerned his deteriorating mental health, |
1:26.0 | rising paranoia and anger. |
1:29.0 | And they came from pretty much every part of his life. |
1:33.0 | But as we now know, none of those warnings prevented this mass shooting. |
1:38.0 | Well, Nick, where should we start in the story of those warnings? |
1:43.0 | You mentioned that they go back many months. |
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