MONTREAL — A Quebec coroner's inquiry is hearing today from police officers who had interacted with a mentally ill man in the months before he murdered a provincial police sergeant.
MONTREAL — A Quebec coroner's inquiry is hearing today from police officers who had interacted with a mentally ill man in the months before he murdered a provincial police sergeant.
Côté says police were called to the apartment building after a search for a lost cat turned into an altercation between Brouillard Lessard and a neighbour. Côté says he urged other officers to “act with caution” around the man, adding that he had a history of violence against health-care workers.
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