An Army reservist, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a two-day search, had a brain tissue analysis that was requested by the state’s chief medical examiner.
In this image taken from New York State Police body camera video that was obtained by WMTW-TV 8 in Portland, Maine, New York State police interview Army Reservist Robert Card, the man responsible for Maine's deadliest mass shooting, at Camp Smith in Cortlandt, N.Y., in July.
During Thursday’s commission hearing, 1st Sgt. Kelvin Mote, who is also a police officer, said he had used Maine’s yellow card law to remove someone’s weapons about a week before learning that Card had made threats.Mote testified that he believed law enforcement could have legally removed Card’s weapons, as well, based on his declining mental health and threats he’d made.
Card had been an instructor and had worked at an Army hand grenade training range, where it is believed he was exposed to repeated low-level blasts. It is unknown if that caused Card’s brain injury and what role brain injury played in Card’s“While I cannot say with certainty that these pathological findings underlie Mr. Card’s behavioral changes in the last 10 months of life, based on our previous work, brain injury likely played a role in his symptoms,” McKee said in the statement.
In their first public comments since the shooting, Card’s family members apologized for the attack, saying they are heartbroken for the victims, survivors and their loved ones. A spokesperson for the commission said members of the family have met privately with commissioners. Some of his relatives warned police that he was displaying paranoid behavior and they were concerned about his access to guns. Body camera videobefore Card’s two-week hospitalization in upstate New York last summer also showed fellow reservists expressing worry and alarm about his behavior and weight loss.
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