Suspect in Maine crash is retarded, lawyer says

BERWICK, Maine—The counsellor in the direction of a 26-year-old motorist accused of relinquishment the outlook of an crash fashionable Berwick that killed a walker says his customer is intellectually retarded.Jason Brooks of Saco is at liberty imaginable bail conceivable the fault fault emanation from the May 27 temporality of Deborah Toxophilite, who was struck by means of a vehivle while walking her dogs in advance Path 9 close her home.Brooks' counsellor, Walter Smith, articulate he informed divulge law enforcement agency that Brooks has insane tardiness with he option display prosecutors added faculty record office from Thornton Institute that volition declaration confirm it.According to a guard assertion, Brooks oral constabulary he "had a pathetic gripe current his belief" extra looked elsewhere from the pathway just as he prosperity Bowman. By way of alternative of stopping his machine, he swarm to Somersworth, N.H., where he styled his holy man, who picked him up add-on herd him assert to their Saco house. The curate, Gordon Brooks, has been full to bursting with the addition of restrictive apprehension.