The local sheriff’s office could have taken the gunman who carried out a deadly shooting in Maine last fall into custody before the shooting happened, a review of the incident has found.
A commission reviewing the events around the October 25 shooting, which left 18 people dead in Lewiston, Maine, concluded that local law enforcement could have taken the shooter into protective custody and seized his weapons prior to the shooting.
The Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Office “had probable cause to believe that [the shooter] posed a likelihood of serious harm,” the seven-member commission said in its preliminary report released on Friday.
The commission said it found unanimously that the sheriff’s office had “sufficient probable cause to take [the shooter] into protective custody under Maine’s Yellow Flag law and to remove his firearms and that the SCSO had probable cause to…
