271 results for “mental_health_crisis”
26y · Male·multiple gunshot wounds with death resulting from combination of blood loss and …
Eduardo Concepcion, a 26-year-old man experiencing mental health crisis and acute intoxication, died from multiple gunshot wounds inflicted by Northern Territory Police. Following days of deteriorating mental state, self…
48y · Male·Unknown causes (presumed suicide by drowning)
Frederick Russell Morgan, a 48-year-old stockbroker, disappeared on 15 July 1971 from Mt Martha beach. He had experienced severe depression triggered by business financial crises, tax assessment concerns, and his father'…
26y · Male·Suicidal cut throat
A 26-year-old Aboriginal male, Marcellus Tipiloura, died from a self-inflicted cut throat while police and emergency services were attending. He had made threats to kill himself and his wife after consuming alcohol and c…
64y · Female·phosphine toxicity from deliberate ingestion of aluminium phosphide fumigation p…
Janice Croft, 64, died from phosphine toxicity after deliberately ingesting fumigation pellets during a police intervention on her property facing eviction for mortgage default. Ms Croft had long-standing bipolar disorde…
24y · Male·gunshot wound to the head
A 24-year-old man with suicidal ideation following a relationship breakdown attended his ex-partner's home armed with a shotgun on 16 March 2016. Over the subsequent 39 hours, NSW Police conducted a siege using containme…
36y · Female·Excited delirium
A 36-year-old woman died from excited delirium during a physical altercation with her 16-year-old son. She had longstanding alcohol and cannabis use, borderline personality disorder with features of post-traumatic stress…
45y · Male·Self-inflicted burns (80-90% full and partial thickness burns across body)
Stephen Mawer, a 45-year-old man with longstanding depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation, died from severe burns sustained when he deliberately set himself alight during a police siege at his home. He had recently be…
23y · Male·Unascertained
Umut Selek, aged 23, died in police custody following apprehension under the Mental Health Act 1986. He presented with acute agitation, aggression, and unusual strength after what appears to be a mental health or drug-re…
35y · Female·Stab wounds to the chest
Chan Chen, 35, was killed by her husband Andrew Luo in their home through stab wounds to the chest. Luo had displayed increasingly erratic behaviour throughout 2019, including delusions of persecution, beliefs that Chen …
43y · Male·Hypoxic/ischaemic encephalopathy resulting from asystolic cardiac arrest due to …
Gregory David Couper, 43, with chronic schizophrenia, experienced a psychiatric crisis at a supported residential care facility on 2 December 1998 and died the next day from restraint asphyxia. Police responded to calls …
Female·unascertained
Two Indigenous women from the Pilbara disappeared in late 1998 without trace: Veronica Lockyer (33 years old) and her infant daughter Adell Partridge (7 months old). Veronica was last seen at a Centrelink office in South…
60y · Male·burn wounds and the consequences thereof
CD, a 60-year-old man with long-standing psychiatric history (schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder) and alcohol use disorder, set his house alight on 19 September 2017 after becoming acutely unwell with paranoid ideati…
Male·Consequences of police tactical operation involving use of lethal force (specifi…
Todd McKenzie died following a police operation in Taree involving negotiation attempts, deployment of non-lethal options, and ultimately lethal force. This extensive coronial ruling concerns protective orders over polic…
40y · Male·Gunshot wound to neck
Benjamin Freear, aged 40, died from a gunshot wound to the neck sustained during a police siege on 8 December 2019 in rural Queensland. He had been diagnosed with ADHD in April 2018 and prescribed dexamphetamine by psych…
Female·neck compression, as a result of hanging
BJ died on 27 August 2016 between 12:54pm and 1:40pm near Prune Street, Lavington, NSW from hanging. The death was ruled to be intentionally self-inflicted and occurred during a police operation, indicating a mental heal…
39y · Female·neck compression due to hanging
A 39-year-old woman with bipolar disorder, depression, substance abuse (alcohol and cannabis), and multiple past suicide attempts died by hanging at home on 11 February 1998. She had been discharged from psychiatric hosp…
58y · Unknown·combined effects of blunt force injury of the chest and immersion
A 58-year-old man died by suicide at The Gap Park, Watsons Bay, after deliberately jumping from a cliff. The cause of death was blunt force injury to the chest and immersion. The coroner found that NSW Police Force polic…
Unknown·Hanging
RP died by hanging at Turrella Reserve, Earlwood, NSW on 28 April 2016 during a police operation. Police attended his property to execute a search warrant. He left the property, proceeded to the nearby reserve, and delib…
48y · Male·cardiac arrhythmia which occurred in the context of physical exertion and hypoxi…
Phillip Walton, a 48-year-old with schizophrenia well-managed on clozapine for nearly 20 years, suffered an acute psychotic episode likely precipitated by cannabis use at a circus. After aggressive behaviour requiring po…
35y · Male·multiple injuries
Paul James Brady, aged 35, died from multiple injuries sustained after jumping from a third-floor apartment balcony on 15 May 2020. Two police officers arrived at the scene within minutes of receiving a call about a man …
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