Maine Mass Shooter Suffered From Traumatic Brain Injury: Doctors

The man who killed 18 people in a mass shooting in Maine in 2023 suffered from a serious brain injury, doctors said on March 6. An examination of Robert Card’s brain revealed “evidence of traumatic brain injury,” Dr. Ann McKee, director of the Boston University Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, said in a statement. Mr. Card, a reservist with the U.S. Army, for years worked as an instructor at an Army range that trained in the use of hand grenades. This exposed him to thousands of low-level blasts, doctors said. Relatives of Mr. Card, who was 40 when he died, asked for the analysis of his brain, which showed “significant degeneration” in the white matter, or the nerve fibers that enable communication between different areas of the brain, Dr. McKee said. Doctors also discovered inflammation and blood vessel injury....