The mother of a 40-year-old Boise man who was shot and killed by deputies in 2023 has filed a lawsuit against several agencies, including the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare and the Ada County Sheriff’s Office, alleging that there was a “repeated, systematic failure” to confine her son on a mental health hold.
Jared Decker was shot and killed on Interstate 84 in April 2023 after he stabbed Ada County Deputy Todd Nelson.
His mother, Barbara Decker, wrote in her 10-page complaint that her son — who was “severely mentally ill,” she said — was released by Health and Welfare months before the shooting, despite being unstable, unmedicated and unaware of his own mental illness, “which led to his homicide by” law enforcement…