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He parked in front of a home in an upscale Charlotte neighborhood and gave a soft fist-bump to a CMPD officer, who shared the bare details: A woman had found her spouse dead by suicide.
It was a little after 9 p.m., and Jeremy Floyd was in the last hour of his shift as a clinician with Mecklenburg’s mobile crisis unit. He could’ve passed the call to the overnight clinician, who comes on at 10 p.m., but he didn’t want the widow to wait…