Maine shooting suspect Robert Card is ‘capable of hiding for a long time,’ says neighbor

LEWISTON, Maine — Suspected mass shooter Robert Card is a deer hunter “capable of hiding for a long time if he doesn’t want to be caught,” according to his family’s longtime neighbor.

Card, 40, is the subject of a massive manhunt over a Wednesday night shooting spree that left 18 people dead and 13 others wounded at multiple sites.

Rick Goddard, 44, lives less than a mile down the road from Card’s parents in Bowdoin, where the suspect grew up, and has known the family for decades.

“It’s his stomping ground. I mean, he grew up here. He knows the area really well. He’s capable of hiding for a long time if he doesn’t want to be caught. There’s a lot of places you can be in the woods and never be seen,” Goddard told The Post.

“It’s really dense, thick woods. If you know the area, there’s a lot of places you can hide … you could never see something like that from an airplane or helicopter.

“The trees are so close together, you can barely walk through them. It’s so thick, you can barely see 10 feet into the woods. If I was going to hide, that’s what I would do. I would hide in some place like that.”

Goddard said he also went to school with Card, who was a few grades behind him at Mt. Ararat High.

According to his neighbor, Maine shooting suspect Robert Card is a hunter who is “capable of hiding for a long time.” 7
According to his neighbor, Maine shooting suspect Robert Card is a hunter who is “capable of hiding for a long time.”
Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office
He described the Cards as quiet farmers who had been in the area, a small community about 16 miles from Lewiston, for several generations.

“They’re really quiet people,” he said.

“His whole family owns hundreds of acres around my house. They’re a farming family. They stay to themselves but they’re good, hardworking people.”