Alleged Maine gunman told police he was 'capable' of doing 'something' 3 months before shooting

Alleged Maine gunman told police he was 'capable' of doing something 3 months before shooting

Three months before the alleged Maine mass shooter would open fire at a bar and a bowling alley, killing 18 people and injuring 13 more, Robert Card told police in New York he was "capable" of doing "something," as they coaxed him to go for psychological treatment and evaluation, police body camera shows.

New York State troopers were called by members of Card's Army Reserve unit out of concern for his mental decline in July, as ABC News previously reported, after an incident the night prior with some of his fellow Reservists. Card was taken that day to an Army hospital at West Point before being transferred for further treatment at a civilian facility. He was released after 14 days. The body camera, obtained via a records request by ABC News' affiliate WMTW, shows the moments before Card was taken in for treatment.

"Our concern is he is going to hurt himself or someone else," one Reservist told New York State troopers in July, standing in the parking lot outside the facility they were staying at near West Point, before Card would go for what would be two weeks of psychiatric evaluation and treatment.

Though Card hadn't explicitly threatened self-harm or harm to others, "He said he was going to 'take care of it,'" one Reservist told the troopers, another chiming in that he was being "combative" toward the other men.

Card had "never been like this," the reservists said multiple times – and they weren't sure whether the behavior and hearing voices had been triggered by his new hearing aids, or something else. The night prior, Card had wheeled on his longtime colleague while on a beer run and "he clenches his fist and comes at me... I'm like, 'Woah' and just kind of backed up... was trying to fight me... I was like, this is crazy... he's like hearing voices, it's like paranoia... it's weird," one reservist said.