Out-of-state nonprofit questions the distribution of funds for Lewiston shooting victims [Video]

An out-of-state nonprofit has raised concerns about whether some Lewiston shooting victims were overlooked by the organization responsible for distributing donations.During the aftermath of the mass shooting, people nationwide were eager to donate to the victims, so the Maine Community Foundation created the Lewiston-Auburn Area Response Fund to streamline the contributions. “Five weeks, six weeks … I tried to go back to work,” said Arthur Barnard, whose son Artie Strout was killed at Schemengee’s Bar & Grill. “I can remember getting up to go to work and making it to a parking lot a mile from my house. When I started work, I think I was in that parking lot for five hours.”While Barnard was struggling to return to work, the response fund paid his November rent. “It kind of means a lot when you have three teenagers in the home and, you know, a baby and a mother and …