Robert Card is on the run in the wake of shootings in Lewiston, Maine, that left 18 people dead.
Among the victims is Joseph Walker, the manager of Schemengees bar, who reportedly tried to stop the gunman with a knife, and was killed in the effort.
His father, visibly emotional, told the news that hate was the central problem: “You can't run around this world hating people. If you do, these kind of things will happen more and more. They may be only individual things that happen, but if you hate and the hate drives you crazy, you're going to hurt people. And I've had my ups and downs in my life, and I don't want anyone to hurt me, and I don't want to hurt anybody. And I'm sure this man, whatever happened to his mind, I'm sure he wasn't born to be a killer, and I'm sure a father and a mother that would have never believed this would have happened with him. So all I can say is I'm sorry that it's happened to all of us, and I'm sorry what may happen to him. And God will prevail. Hate will never bring my son back.”
