Lewiston shooter Robert Card’s family is scheduled to testify Thursday before the independent commission investigating the tragedy, the commission announced Tuesday.
Card, 40, of Bowdoin, killed 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar on Oct. 25 and wounded 13 others. He was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound two days later.
Card’s family has said little publicly since the shootings but did put out a statement in March following the release of an analysis that showed Card likely suffered from traumatic brain injury prior to the shootings.
“We are hurting for you and with you, and it is hard to put into words how badly we wish we could undo what happened,” the statement said, according to the Portland Press Herald.
The Thursday meeting agenda does not specify which members of Card’s family will testify. Testimony is also scheduled to include an official from the Army Reserves Psychological Health Program.
It will be the 11th public meeting of the commission, which is charged with investigating the events that led up to the shootings — the deadliest in state history — and the police response to it.
Much of the focus in recent meetings has been on the Army Reserve and any efforts they made to get Card help following concerning behavior during a training mission last July.
Reservists told the commission that Card spent two weeks at a psychiatric facility, but then checked out and returned to Maine. Then in September, a fellow reservist warned his commanders that he feared Card would commit a mass shooting after Card lashed out at him when they went gambling.
The meeting is set for 9 a.m. Thursday in Jewett Auditorium at the University of Maine Augusta.