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Local program helps arrested people with mental illness

Local program helps arrested people with mental illness July 23, 2021 5:51 pm Working to change jail s mental health status HOUSTON – A local program aims to divert people with mental illness from the Harris County jail to a center for mental health treatment. “I was told that he had a panic disorder. He couldn’t be alone,” said former Harris County Judge Ed Emmett. Emmett’s father lived with mental illness his entire life. “If he looked less than a mid-level oil company employee, he would’ve been arrested for vagrancy. He would’ve been one of those people in the jail,” Emmett said.

Police: Man dies during shootout with officers

The man, 35-year-old Irvin Peterson, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Houston Police Department. HPD said officers responded to the Palace Inn at 3421 Antoine Dr. just after 11 p.m. July 18 in response to a call from Peterson, who police said was allegedly threatening to kill other people and responding officers. As officers responded, police said Peterson allegedly shot and killed a man and woman while wounding two other men. The identities of the man and woman are pending verification by the county’s medical examiner, while the other two men went to the hospital with what police called non-life-threatening injuries.

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