Vancouver Police are now saying a 30-year-old man charged in a coffee-shop stabbing was apprehended for mental-health reasons two days earlier, taken to hospital, and then released.
Charges of attempted murder and obstructing a peace officer were laid today against Mohamed Amer after a 71-year-old man was stabbed yesterday in a coffee shop on West Hastings.
Police now say the man was apprehended under the mental health act — twice — two days before the stabbing.
In both cases, he was taken to a local hospital for assessment and admitted into a doctor’s care.
Police would not say why Amer was apprehended nor why a doctor released him.
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