Attorneys Travis Brennan and Chuck Hehmeyer Use Probate Courts to Access Shooter’s Private Records
A dedicated and experienced team of Berman & Simmons attorneys is pursuing every legal avenue to uncover more details about what system failures allowed a US Army Reservist to commit a deadly mass shooting. They recently took the unusual step of working with the probate courts as a way to seek new information when Attorneys Travis Brennan and Chuck Hehmeyer accompanied client Cynthia Young to Sagadahoc County Probate Court where a judge designated her as a special administrator to the shooter’s estate. Young’s 44-year-old husband, Bill, and 14-year-old son, Aaron, died in the Oct. 25, 2023 shooting while bowling at Just-In-Time Recreation.
This step in probate court gives Young special access to the shooter’s private military and medical records that attorneys have not been able to acquire, despite attorneys sending multiple requests to the military and the hospitals that cared for the shooter.
“Those who lost loved ones, and the Card family all have a shared interest in the information, ” Attorney Brennan said. “Those materials are critical in terms of piecing together important parts of the story, the tragic story that unfolded here.”
Among the questions attorneys hope these records will answer are:
- Why the shooter was allowed to leave a New York hospital after his Army colleagues reported that he was experiencing delusions and sharing homicidal ideations;
- Why the shooter could be allowed to own guns despite being barred from having firearms on the Army reserve base in Saco where he served;
- When did the shooter’s mental health take a turn for the worse and did his exposure to explosives and other military devices have any role.
Watch this story on WMTW Channel 8: Family member of 2 Lewiston shooting victims gets access to Robert Card’s records
Read about this story in the Portland Press Herald: Judge grants families of Lewiston shooting victims access to gunman’s medical records