He was not. He did have some disturbing issues recently and started hearing voices after getting a new hearing aid. 40 is also late for onset of schizophrenia.
That doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, and hearing voices is almost never the initial onset of either schizophrenia or bipolar (some forms of which present with similar symptoms to the positive schizophrenia symptoms)
His sister-in-law said: “He was picking up voices that he had never heard,” she told NBC News. “His mind was twisting them around. He was humiliated by the things that he thought were being said. It turned into a manic belief” News quotes aren't always the best, but what else can we go by?
He “should be considered armed and dangerous,” the Lewiston, Maine, police department said.
His cousin said he was schizophrenic. It's not an official diagnosis obv, but what other info have you seen?
A cousin of Maine mass shootings suspect Robert Card called him a "schizophrenic," as a police manhunt intensified Thursday.