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AUGUSTA, Maine — The commission investigating the events leading up to the Lewiston mass shooting will meet for the first time on Monday.
The Independent Commission to Investigate the Facts of the Tragedy in Lewiston will meet Monday in the Cross State Office Building, with an executive session to discuss staffing beginning at 9 a.m. A public meeting starts at 10 a.m., the commission said Wednesday.
“During the public meeting, members intend to discuss the path forward for their work to determine the facts that led to the tragedy and the response during and following the shootings,” commission spokesperson Kevin Kelley said in a news release.
Former Maine Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Daniel Wathen is chairing the independent body appointed by Gov. Janet Mills and Attorney General Aaron Frey announced last week eight members serving on the commission.
The panel will review the lead-up to the Oct. 25 mass shooting that left 18 dead and 13 injured at a bowling alley and bar in Lewiston as well as the two-day manhunt for the gunman, Robert R. Card II, a 40-year old Army reservist from Bowdoin who was found dead in Lisbon from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
