Man who killed Quebec provincial police officer began showing problems in 2012
The police officers were attacked with a 20-pound dumbbell.
Later that same year, he told a mental health expert that he was taking medication that had been prescribed to him and that things were going well. On March 10, 2014, Brouillard Lessard was declared not criminally responsible in two different cases where he was charged with uttering threats toward three of his relatives and, four months later, the mental health tribunal determined he should remain detained at an institution. The decision was based on a psychiatric diagnosis of delusional disorder, “but above all to his dependence on cannabis and his past alcohol abuse. He has narcissistic personality traits.
He was ordered to be hospitalized again in an effort to keep him on his medication but, in May 2018, he assaulted a psychiatrist, threatened another and assaulted two other people at the mental health institution where he was held. He was charged with the offences but was declared not criminally responsible at a courthouse in Shawinigan two months later, on July 18, 2018.
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