- May 3, 2024
- Posted by: legaleseblogger
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## Concerns about a Suicidal Incident
Hello everyone,
Please keep everything neutral, nothing harsh as we are already dealing with a lot of stress.
My cousin, a 20-year-old female, has been struggling with suicidal thoughts and behavior for quite some time. She has been hospitalized twice before and has attempted suicide in the past.
Life has been incredibly difficult for her, as she battles severe depression and has experienced various traumas. Her pain recently led her to yet another suicide attempt. Currently, she called 9-1-1 and falsely claimed that her friend was being violent, just so the officers would come to her apartment.
Upon their arrival, she brandished a kitchen knife in distress and demanded that the officers shoot her, or she would harm herself or them. Despite their efforts to calm her down, she ran towards an officer, resulting in him shooting her in the arm.
She is now recovering in the hospital, and we are unsure about the next steps in this situation.
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She could be charged with Assault with a Weapon. Whether or not she will is up to the police and/or Crown
What your sister did – charged at someone with a knife, with the apparent and stated intention of attacking them – is consistent with the definition of assault with a weapon. Your sister may have been “pretending,” but neither the victim nor a prosecutor are required to give her the benefit of the doubt, and if her actions appeared sincere in the moment, then she could be convicted of that charge. Sentencing could include jail time, or could be more moderate, based on a huge range of factors.
That’s the high water mark, and it’s a possibility I would take seriously. She needs a lawyer if she is charged; if she can’t afford one, this is a charge that would generally qualify for legal aid.
Short of that, she could be charged with a lesser offence – assault, disorderly conduct, or something else. She could also not be charged at all, for any of a range of reasons that all boil down to “the prosecutor opted not to” one way or another.
If charged, given that she was experiencing a serious mental health crisis, she and her lawyer might explore the avenue that she was not fit to commit the offence – that she was so disturbed as to not know what she was doing or know right from wrong, basically. That’s a very tenuous defence given that she was able to articulate her intentions and then carry them out, so it’s not guaranteed that her lawyer will be on board with this or that it would be successful, but it’s not something we can rule out, either.
I can understand why you’d want to better know what will happen, but unfortunately we can’t give you that. We don’t know any more than you do. There’s a ton of room for discretion, and for the specifics of the event to influence various decisions about what to do about it. For now, the best advice we can give you is to be there for your sister as a person, rather than worrying about the legal outcomes, and to put some pennies aside for her defence if she is charged.
For what it’s worth, I’m very glad she’s alive.
It entirely depends.
I never shot anyone, but I did taze someone that did something similar.
I apprehended them under the Mental Health Act, submitted them for assessment and treatment, and opted not to lay charges because it was a very clear moment of desperation and distress.
My Sergeant pressed me to do so, because my partner and I were injured during the engagement, but it just wasn’t worth it.
I would expect the worst and hope for the best. Police don’t have to lay charges immediately, and at least for most Summary/Hybrid offences in Canada we have 6 months from the date of the offence to do so.
NAL,
But my sibling also in 2018 tried this route in BC as well.
She did not get charged however she didn’t get charged because she was admitted for a psych evaluation and it became apparent she was in a PTSD episode from her abusive ex beating her and PPD. She stayed in the hospital for about 3 months, then she went to a treatment centre and spent about 9 months there and got a lot better emotionally and mentally.
It took a long time for her to get the help she needed and it got to that point of asking for help to be taken seriously, I hope this incident is what pushes help for your cousin and she has the successes in the treatment centres to combat her depression, PTSD. Good luck, OP & family 💕. Sending so much love your way.
The police might charge her, but because this was a police shooting things might move a little slower than usual. Ultimately I’d probably expect charges to justify the use of force. She should probably retain a lawyer in advance, but ultimately she might not be in the proper headspace to deal with the issues and police might be waiting to press charges once she’s in the correct headspace to understand the charges
There is no “pretending” to attack, when she started charging with that knife, she was engaged in attacking. She will most likely be charged with at the very least assault and at worst attempted murder of a police officer (she told the officer that she would hurt them, and then ran towards them with a knife). At some point in the judicial process she will likely be remanded to a mental health facility in lieu of jail/prison. She would have been better off to have an unloaded gun because then she could at least prove that her threat was empty and that her intent wasn’t to kill anyone, however the fact that she used a real knife makes the threat real and the possibility that she could have seriously harmed someone real. The best thing that you can do is help pitch in for a decent lawyer.
The law works precisely the same as it does for non-suicidal people who do mean to attack people – it’s still assault with a weapon. I’d be very surprised if she didn’t get charged for something that resulted in the discharge of a firearm by the officers, regardless of her mental health status.
I’m skeptical that this occurred as reported. If your post is accurate your cousin is very lucky to be alive as police are trained to shoot centre of mass when facing a lethal threat. Further, an incident in BC where police have shot (and hospitalized) someone would almost certainly be investigated by the Independent Investigations Office (IIO). IIO announces their deployments on their website…
She needs a lawyer