The commission investigating the Lewiston mass shooting will hold two virtual public hearings on Thursday to learn more about the medical treatment Robert Card received in New York last summer after he tried to assault a fellow soldier.
The group had previously announced it would question an Army nurse practitioner who worked at Kelly Army Hospital in New York, where Card was taken for evaluation last July after his fellow soldiers became concerned about his paranoid and aggressive behavior. That meeting will be held via Zoom at 5 p.m. because the witness, whose name has not been released, is in a different time zone.
After a last minute schedule change, the commission will also interview a “civilian medical professional” contracted with the U.S. Army at 1 p.m. It is unclear whether the provider, who received a subpoena to appear before the commission, worked at Four Winds Psychiatric Hospital, where Card was committed for two weeks last summer after being transferred from Keller.
The public will be able to attend both hearings on Zoom.
Though several previous hearings have detailed attempts to address Card’s declining mental health at key moments in May, July and September, it remains unclear exactly what happened during Card’s hospitalization in New York last summer.
Both his Army commanders and family members told the commission they were surprised last August when they learned he was being released from Four Winds after just two…
