Robert Card biography: 13 things about Bowdoin, Maine man

Robert R. Card II was an American man from Bowdoin, Sagadahoc County, Maine, United States. He enjoyed fishing, bowling and hunting and he loved cornhole, darts and disc golf.

Aside from Bowdoin, Card also lived in other parts of Maine including Bowdoinham, Bradford, Corinna and Orono. He and his former wife have a son together.

A certified firearms instructor, Card was in the U.S. Army Reserve stationed out of Saco, York County, Maine where he served as a petroleum supply specialist. He was a sergeant first class who served in different parts of the U.S. including Georgia, New York and Wisconsin.

While Card had no combat deployments, he had extensive training, including firearms training and land navigation. He received an Army Service Ribbon, the Army Achievement Medal, two Army Reserve Component Achievement Medals, the Humanitarian Service Medal and the National Defense Service Medal.

Card was 1 year younger than his brother Ryan C. Card. The former was 1 year older than Robert William Card, a registered sex offender in Maine.

Robert R. was a long-haul truck driver and he worked at a distribution center and at a recycling plant. He had a white 2013 Subaru Outback and a 2019 Sea Doo green boat.

On May 30, 2023, Robert R. updated his Facebook profile picture with a photo of himself wearing a Lisbon Left Hand Club Horseshoe League (LLHCHL) shirt. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. From 2001 to 2004, he studied engineering at the University of Maine in Orono. He was charged with speeding in 2001 and in 2002.
2. In December 2002, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve and trained as a firearms instructor.
3. On April 14, 2007, he was arrested and charged with driving under the influence. On May 15, 2007, he was ordered to pay a $500 fine, spend 48 hours in a cell and have his driver’s license suspended for 90 days. 
4. In 2022, he had an acute episode of mental health while he was employed at Maine Recycling, a recycling plant in Lisbon, Androscoggin County.
5. In February 2023, he went through a bad breakup with a woman he met during a cornhole competition at Schemengees Bar & Grille Restaurant in Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine. After the breakup, he had significant weight loss, was hospitalized for mental health issues, prescribed medication that he stopped taking, started wearing hearing aids and claimed there was a conspiracy against him and people were accusing him of being a pedophile.
6. In March 2023, he liked a Twitter post by Donald Trump Jr. that read, “Given the incredible rise of trans/non-binary mass shooters in the last few years… by far the largest group committing as a percentage of population… maybe, rather than talking about guns we should be talking about lunatics pushing their gender affirming bulls–t on our kids?” After a mass shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, USA on March, 27, 2023, he liked a post on Twitter arguing against a ban on assault weapons. 
7. In May 2023, his ex-wife and their son contacted the Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Office and told a deputy he was drinking heavily, acting paranoid and had picked up 10 to 15 handguns and rifles from his brother’s house.
8. On July 16, 2023, while training at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, he was committed involuntarily to Keller Army Community Hospital at the academy for medical evaluation after reporting hearing voices and threatening to carry out a shooting at the National Guard Base in Saco. On July 30, 2023, he was released from the facility.
9. In September 2023, the U.S. Army Reserve tipped Sagadahoc County sheriff Joel Merry off that he had “veiled threats” against a U.S. Army base. The deputies sent to his residence in Bowdoin could not find him so Merry sent an awareness alert about him to all of Maine’s law enforcement agencies.
10. On October 18, 2023, the lookout alert for him was canceled. 
11. At around 6:56 p.m. on October 25, 2023, he allegedly used a high-powered assault-style rifle to open fire at the Just-In-Time Recreation bowling alley then at Schemengees Bar & Grille Restaurant, killing at least 18 people and injuring least 13 people. Shortly after the shooting, his Facebook page was taken down. At 9:56 p.m., his white 2013 Subaru Outback was found at the Pejepscot Boat Launch in Lisbon but he was not inside.
12. On October 26, 2023, authorities found at his residence in Bowdoin a suicide note addressed to his son. That day, Katie O’Neill Card, who is married to his brother, told The Daily Beast that he is “quiet but the most loving, hardworking and kind person” that she knows.
13. On October 27, 2023, he was found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a recycling center trailer in Lisbon. He was 40.