Quebec Cop Death: Criminologist Calls for Mandatory Risk Evaluations for Patients

Risk assessments should be mandatory before Quebec’s mental health review board decides whether a patient is released into society, a criminologist told a coroner’s inquest on Mar. 19. Josée Rioux told the inquest that a comprehensive risk assessment was not conducted in the case of Isaac Brouillard Lessard, the 35-year-old who stabbed a provincial police sergeant to death on March 27, 2023. Police had been dispatched to arrest him on charges of uttering threats against his uncle and breaching probation when he killed Sgt. Maureen Breau with a kitchen knife, and seriously injured her partner in his apartment building in Louiseville, Que., about 100 kilometres northeast of Montreal....