In September, the Army Reserve warned the sheriff’s department that Card was suffering from severe mental illness and that one of his fellow reservists feared he might “explode and carry out a shooting attack,” according to documents obtained by the Boston newspaper.
In July, the Army Reserve sent him to a New York psychiatric hospital, where he remained for two weeks after threatening to attack other reservists.
According to a letter from an anonymous Army reserve officer, he specifically threatened a shooting attack in late summer. “He will explode,” he will “carry out a shooting attack,” said a September letter signed by an anonymous official.
Despite warnings, the sheriff’s department was unable to contact Card, a retired first sergeant, when it tried twice to reach him at his home to check on his mental health.
In the letter, according to the Boston Globe, the officer told the sheriff’s department that Card had “heard voices telling him he was a pedophile” and other “insults.”
The retired sergeant even beat a fellow soldier and accused him of calling him a “pedophile” and also threatened him by saying he “had guns and would shoot” at a training center and other locations.