Community came together to remember, grieve and honor the 18 lives that were lost in a mass shooting in Lewiston last year. One of the victims, Joshua Seal, was a faculty member at the University of Southern Maine’s American Sign Language program.
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Watch ‘Breakdown: Turning anguish into action,’ a discussion on Lewiston shooting
The discussion was held at the Benjamin Mays Center at Bates College.
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CMMC staff reflects on their response to the Oct. 25 shooting
Hospital staff came together to provide the most efficient care to those wounded in the shooting, staff say.
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Lewiston will mark 1 year since mass shooting with event Friday at The Colisee
Attendees are invited to bring small mementos and keepsakes to leave at the end of the event, all of which will be catalogued and preserved as part of the growing Maine MILL collection in connection with the shooting.
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Our View: As Lewiston approaches Oct. 25, we must keep looking ahead
Remembering is important – and it is painful. A sustained focus on the future offers reasons to keep going.
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Lighting up Lewiston a year after the darkness
With hope and love, survivors and residents search for ways to ‘take back’ a day that brought so much grief
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4 key findings about Maine’s law to compel mental health treatment
We spent months talking to experts in mental health care about what happened in Lewiston and how to treat people who cannot or do not accept their mental illnesses.
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A Maine law could have forced the Lewiston mass shooter into psychiatric treatment. Why wasn’t it used?
Like nearly every other state, Maine can compel those with serious mental illnesses to comply with outpatient treatment. But the law is rarely used. Some fear it threatens to return America to a dark era of institutionalization.
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Outside review of Maine State Police after-action report on Lewiston shootings recommends improvements
The recommendations came in an analysis of the Maine State Police’s after-action review of the Lewiston mass shooting last year.
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Portland Public Schools installs memorial bench for Lewiston shooting victim
The East End Community School and Maine Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing have dedicated the bench to Joshua Seal, who was an educational technician at the school from 2013-20.