Tormented Minds, Broken System: Gaps in mental health care before violence

Editor’s note: This article contains crime scene photos from a mass stabbing that some viewers may find disturbing.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Recent high-profile violent incidents are raising serious questions about Michigan’s mental health system.

Among them, the fatal shooting by police a year ago of a man with a fake gun outside the Grand Rapids hospital he had gone to for help; the police shooting of a man armed with a box cutter in northeast Grand Rapids; the recent police shooting of a knife-wielding man on the West Side; a man shooting at an officer before repeatedly stabbing a police dog, also on the West Side…

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