Police Testify at Coroner’s Inquiry Into Murder of Sergeant by Mentally Ill Man

Published on March 11, 2024

A Quebec coroner’s inquiry is hearing on Mar. 11 from police officers who had interacted with a mentally ill man in the months before he murdered a provincial police sergeant. Provincial police officer Charles Côté says he encountered 35-year-old Isaac Brouillard Lessard on Dec. 30, 2022, days after the man moved to an apartment in Louiseville, Que., about 100 kilometres northeast of Montreal. Officer Côté says police were called to the apartment building after a search for a lost cat turned into an altercation between Mr. Brouillard Lessard and a neighbour. The incident ended without charge, but Officer Côté says he filed an internal bulletin after learning that Mr. Brouillard Lessard was being followed by the province’s mental health board....

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