Wife of man missing from hospital organizes search party, pleads for help

The wife of a man who has been missing for three weeks after escaping a Gardner hospital where he was being held for a mental health evaluation is organizing a search party Saturday.

Leonard Mercury, 57, broke a window at Heywood Hospital in the early hours of Oct. 31 and jumped from the roof into the bushes below before fleeing the property, according to an email from the hospital to Mercury’s wife, Nicole La Guerre.

La Guerre told Boston 25 News she had called police to their Westminster home the night before after an argument with Mercury, who had been struggling with his mental health.

Police took Mercury to Heywood Hospital for a Section 12 mental health hold, La Guerre said…

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