ASL PODCAST | BREAKDOWN EP. 2: 'I believe he is going to snap'

For months before the Lewiston shooting, the gunman’s loved ones tried to get him help. An examination into the numerous opportunities for intervention.

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The Lewiston shooting was the deadliest mass shooting of 2023 – and it’s believed to be the deadliest ever mass shooting of deaf people in the U.S. We’re publishing American Sign Language (ASL)-interpreted videos for each episode of our podcast Breakdown: Turning Anguish Into Action, a six-part series in collaboration with Maine Public Radio and the Portland Press Herald.

For more than a year following the shooting, our newsrooms were on the ground investigating, combing through documents, listening to testimony and interviewing dozens of people.

Over six episodes, Breakdown explores the missed opportunities to prevent the shooting, the role of guns and hunting in Maine’s politics, and the aftermath for shooting survivors and their families – including communication barriers for those who were deaf and hard of hearing.

Publishing the innovative ASL-interpreted videos is part of an effort by FRONTLINE, Maine Public Radio and the Portland Press Herald to make this award-winning investigative podcast accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing community.

FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen.