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Law could have made Army Reservist shooter get mental health care
A Maine law could have forced the Lewiston mass shooter into psychiatric treatment. Why wasn’t it used?
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2 Ways to Tell Psychopaths and Sociopaths Apart
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Cottonwood Heights woman charged with murder in the death of her National Guard husband
“According to Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill, Jennifer Gledhill, 41, is facing several felonies including first-degree murder after she allegedly shot her husband, Matthew Johnson, and buried him in a shallow grave last month.”
“Documents say the missing person investigation began on Sept. 25 when the Utah National Guard called the police requesting assistance in locating Johnson after he did not come into work.”
Read on www.abc4.com/news/wasatch-front/utah-woman-charged-with-murder-in-the-death-of-her-husband/
Former Air Force Member Indicted for 2019 Sexual Assault at Air Base in the United Kingdom | USDOJ
“The indictment charges James Loubeau, 36, of Miami, with one count of sexual abuse and two counts of abusive sexual contact. Loubeau made his initial court appearance today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.”
“According to the indictment, on May 4, 2019, Loubeau sexually assaulted the victim at Royal Air Force Mildenhall. Loubeau was later discharged from the Air Force in March 2020. The charges were brought under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (MEJA), which establishes U.S. jurisdiction over certain offenses committed abroad by, among others, persons who served with the armed forces but who are no longer subject to military prosecution.”
Read on www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-air-force-member-indicted-2019-sexual-assault-air-base-united-kingdom
Army Reservist sentenced in Fayetteville 2021 killing of Kotasha Griffith
Army reservist sentenced for her part in 2021 Fayetteville murder
“A former Army reservist was sentenced to probation last week for her part in a deadly shooting in 2021 in which a man was gunned down in a neighborhood off Ramsey Street as he waited to meet up with a girl he talked to on Instagram.”
“Damaryia Shantelle Mack, 23, pleaded guilty in January to felony accessory after the fact of discharging a weapon into an occupied vehicle in the July 23, 2021, death of Kotasha Glenroy Griffith, 27, of Fayetteville. Mack received a sentence of three years probation with a suspended prison sentence of 25 to 42 months.”
Lantern Walk gets a military makeover
Oct. 19 event to shine a light on mental health struggles of veterans, active-duty service members.
This year, the Brandon Caserta Foundationand ASU’s Pat Tillman Veterans Center are teaming up for a lantern procession of their own, this one to raise awareness around the mental health struggles of veterans and active-duty service members.
“Suicide in the military is at an epidemic level, and we’re hoping this walk is a way to honor the ones we have lost, the ones who are struggling and the ones who have attempted to take their lives but are still with us,” said Teri Caserta, who along with husband Patrick started the Brandon Caserta Foundation in 2021. The foundation offers assistance, guidance, education and resources to active-duty service members, veterans and their families.
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More than 800 military veterans receive honorable discharges from Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” records review
“The news comes a little more than a year after proactively reviewing the records of LGBTQ+ veterans who might be eligible for an honorable discharge but had not yet applied for one. The 800+ veterans receiving this relief will see their discharge papers – known as a DD-214 – automatically change to “honorable” without the burden of having to go through the military’s formal process of applying for a discharge upgrade. An honorable discharge status unlocks access to benefits that some of these veterans may have been missing out on for decades, including things like health care, college tuition assistance, VA loan programs and even some jobs.”
“In a separate effort announced in June, President Biden sought to redress some of the harms brought about by the military justice system against those suspected of homosexuality when he issued pardons for former service members convicted under a military law from years past that explicitly criminalized consensual ‘sodomy.'”
Read more: www.cbsnews.com/news/military-veterans-honorable-discharges-dont-ask-dont-tell-review/
Family members, victims of Lewiston mass shooting to take legal action against Army
Attorneys say the notices summarize some of the key facts uncovered to date that support their negligence claims, including:
- Between March and July 2023, the Army became aware that Card had suffered a severe and precipitous decline in his mental health, resulting in erratic and combative behaviors, and promised to take steps to address Card’s condition. The Army failed to act.
- The Army, KACH and DoD knew that Card had been exposed to thousands of blast events from his work as a firearms and grenade instructor but did not investigate whether physiological damage to Card’s brain from such blast exposure was a root cause of Card’s sudden and inexplicable onset of mental illness, or otherwise determine whether Card’s illness was caused or exacerbated in the “line of duty,” as required by Army regulations.
- In July and August 2023, the Army and KACH determined that Card’s mental illness—including paranoia, delusions, and homicidal ideations with development of a “hit list”—posed a serious risk to himself and others, but nevertheless allowed Card to return to the community without the cause of his mental illness determined or a plan for treatment, and without reporting Card under New York’s SAFE Act or Red Flag laws.
- Although Card’s doctors released him from the hospital on the condition that he no longer have access to firearms, and the Army and KACH assured his doctors that they would remove Card’s firearms, they did not do so and left Card in possession of numerous weapons, including the AR-10 assault rifle he used to carry out the mass shooting.
- Following Card’s release from the hospital and return to Maine, the Army and KACH failed to notify local Maine law enforcement, provide them with Card’s recent history or inform them that Card’s doctors had directed that Card be separated from his firearms.
- In September 2023, when the Army learned that Card had threated to shoot up the military base in Saco and commit a mass shooting, the Army downplayed and minimized the threat (despite later acknowledging that it was serious and credible), and actively discouraged local law enforcement from taking decisive action.
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