The man at the centre of a standoff that shut down three SkyTrain stations on Nov. 13 had been getting support from slain Burnaby RCMP Const. Shaelyn Yang. Police say her death set off a mental-health spiral.
A Burnaby photographer captured the emotional end to a six-hour police standoff at the Metrotown SkyTrain station earlier this month.He hugs one of the officers, his head resting on the officer’s shoulder.He could only watch the six-hour ordeal from a distance, not knowing the tragic circumstances that sparked it.
When two male transit police officers first arrived at the scene, Steed said the man said he would only talk to a female officer he had spotted at the scene. For most of the incident, the man was precariously perched on a railing high above Central Boulevard.After negotiations had gone on for several hours, police called in the Lower Mainland Integrated Emergency Response Team.The photo snapped by the Metrotown condo dweller captured the moment after the man finally allowed the tactical officers to arrest him.
Jump in mental health calls News media tend not to report on mental health crises, especially suicides and suicide attempts. “It’s so common now to get calls of people in the guideway. It’s shocking,” she said. “Before, it used to be so rare; now, sometimes it’s happening two or three times a day, whether that be mental health, suicide or drug-induced psychosis.”
“Even just average people are at their breaking point, and we’re getting calls for people who have no history of anything like this before,” Steed said.
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