271 results for “mental_health_crisis”
39y · Male·Excited delirium, probably caused by amphetamine toxicity-induced psychosis. Dea…
Antonio Carmelo Galeano died in police custody on 12 June 2009 after a protracted struggle and multiple taser activations. He had acute amphetamine toxicity and was displaying excited delirium—a high-risk medical emergen…
29y · Female·gunshot wound to the abdomen
Joyce Gladis Clarke, a 29-year-old Aboriginal woman, was fatally shot in the abdomen by First Class Constable Wyndham while police responded to a call about a person carrying a knife in a Geraldton street. Clarke had bee…
17y · Male·Cerebral ischaemia caused by hanging at Quamby Youth Detention Centre at approxi…
Mark Watson, a 17-year-old boy charged with assault, was detained at Quamby Youth Detention Centre. During his second remand in September 1996, after a failed hospital admission, he returned to the same unit where he had…
30y · Male·Gunshot wounds to the chest
Gabriel Messo, a 30-year-old man with bipolar affective disorder, died from gunshot wounds inflicted by Victoria Police on 16 July 2020 after violently assaulting his mother at John Coutts Reserve. Clinical lessons inclu…
55y · Male·Hanging
Peter Tully, 55, died by hanging 4 days after discharge from his first psychiatric admission for major depressive disorder with suicidality. He had made 3 suicide attempts in the week before admission. During hospitalisa…
68y · Male·compression of the neck with contributing acute myocardial infarction due to cor…
A 68-year-old Aboriginal man died by hanging in his cell at Yatala Labour Prison on 16 April 2015 while experiencing acute myocardial infarction. He was transferred to Yatala for urgent psychiatric assessment following t…
36y · Male·Toxic overdose of Clozapine (anti-psychotic drug), self-administered, with termi…
Brian Duff, a 36-year-old with severe chronic schizophrenia, died from Clozapine toxicity (pulmonary oedema and cardiac arrest) on 14-15 February 1997. He was subject to a Community Treatment Order and under case managem…
Multiple causes across 22 deaths: ligature compression of the neck (17 hangings)…
This coronial inquiry examined 22 deaths of Aboriginal people in the Kimberley region of Western Australia between 2000 and 2007. Seventeen were self-harm deaths, with four additional accidental deaths and one homicide. …
41y · Male·Gunshot wounds to neck and chest (perpetrator Joel Cauchi); stab wounds (six vic…
On 13 April 2024, Joel Cauchi stabbed 16 people at Westfield Bondi Junction, NSW, fatally wounding six: Dawn Singleton, Jade Young, Yixuan Cheng, Ashlee Good, Faraz Tahir, and Pikria Darchia. Cauchi was shot and killed b…
33y · Male·Extensive burns sustained when former partner deliberately splashed petrol on hi…
F and M, two parents involved in family law proceedings over their three children, both died in a house fire in March 2022. F (aged 33) died from extensive burns after M (aged 31) deliberately splashed him with petrol an…
60y · Male·asphyxia sequential to hanging due to depression
Robert Harris, a 60-year-old man with depression, made two suicide attempts within 24 hours. After the first attempt on 27 June 2006, he was discharged from Cairns Base Hospital Emergency Department with a plan to attend…
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