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Nearly ten months after the deadliest shooting in Maine state history, in which an Army reservist killed 18 people at a bowling alley and bar-and-grill in Lewiston, the independent body tasked with investigating the incidents has released its final report.

The independent commission investigating the facts of the Lewiston tragedy concluded that neither the Army Reserve nor the local police missed opportunities to intervene in the shooter's psychiatric crisis and take away the weapons from the agitating reservist.

You can read the final report here:

The commission appointed by Governor Janet Mills held a press conference at Lewiston City Hall on Tuesday to release the report.

Dan Wathen, the panel's chairman, reiterated the report's findings: While we will never know whether the shooter would have found another way to kill a large group of people if someone had taken his weapons away, “there were several opportunities that, if exploited, could have changed the course of events.”