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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Amelia Neath

Maine mass shooter had ‘severe’ traumatic brain injury from time as grenade instructor, family tells commission

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The family of an Army reservist who killed 18 people in a horrific mass shooting in Maine last October say that his brain was “hijacked” by a severe traumatic brain injury.

Testifying before a state investigative committee, the family of 40-year-old Robert Card, who was found dead from a self-inflicted wound days later, said that he had a “severe” traumatic brain injury relating to his military service.

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