Being safety risk doesn't always lead to mandatory psych ward stays, coroner hears
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MONTREAL — The psychiatrist whose patient killed three people at random over a 24-hour span in the Montreal area in August 2022 told a coroner's inquest Thursday that what triggered the killing spree will likely never be known. Dr.
Psychiatrist who saw Abdulla Shaikh in March 2022 says "if he was psychotic, he hid it very, very well." Five months later, Shaikh shot and killed three men at random and was himself killed by Montreal police.
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MONTREAL - A Quebec doctor denounced to local health officials the severe lack of psychiatrists in a Montreal suburb, shortly after three men were gunned down by a man with mental health issues in August 2022.