Overview

• Roughly 100 survivors and victims’ families filed a federal lawsuit in Maine on Wednesday naming the U.S. Army, the Defense Department and Keller Army Community Hospital.
• The complaint alleges the Army knew by March 2023 that reservist Robert Card was paranoid, violent and threatening mass violence, yet failed to remove his guns and discouraged local action under Maine’s yellow flag law.
• Card was evaluated at Keller Army Community Hospital in July 2023 and then hospitalized for about 19 days at a civilian facility, where providers documented psychosis, homicidal ideation and a hit list and recommended seizing his personal firearms.
• Independent and military reviews previously found communication and procedural failures, including unit leaders neglecting required steps and three Army Reserve leaders being disciplined, as well as missed chances for police to initiate firearm removal.
• The suit seeks monetary damages for medical and funeral costs, pain and suffering and emotional distress; the Pentagon and Army declined to comment on pending litigation.