Near the end of July 2020, Snache was apprehended by the Ontario Provincial Police while walking on the shoulder of a highway near Puslinch. He got a referral to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and was released. “He requested a refill of his Abilify and also asked that something else be prescribed.”Īfter complaining about headaches, Snache underwent a CT scan, the judge said. He said he thought people were watching him and out to harm him. He spoke about having some paranoia and homicidal ideation. “He was vague about his health situation. “He was homeless at the time and had no supports in Sarnia,” Boswell said. Two weeks later, on May 29, Snache went to the emergency department at Bluewater Health, a hospital in Sarnia. Mary’s General Hospital “can’t comment on specifics related to a patient’s history of care with the hospital” due to privacy issues, spokesperson Dayna Giorgio said in an email to The Record.) His prescription for Abilify was extended and he was released.” “He was vague about what brought him to the hospital,” the judge said. One month later, on May 14, 2020, Snache went to the emergency department at St. His Abilify prescription was renewed and he was released, “given the absence of concern that he was a risk to himself or others,” the judge said. At Brampton Civic Hospital, he was diagnosed with an unspecified psychosis. Two weeks later, Snache called an ambulance because he was hearing voices, Boswell said. He was prescribed a month’s supply of Abilify, an antipsychotic, and released from the hospital. Snache was diagnosed with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and substance-induced psychosis. “He was admitted and spent two days in hospital,” said the judge, sitting in Barrie.
Nine months before the murder, Snache went to Toronto Western Hospital complaining of auditory hallucinations. “He appears to have been homeless and transitory through much of that time and lacking in supports, partly, I would think, due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.” Snache’s medical history shows he was “suffering significantly with mental illness” throughout 2020, Boswell said. “This lack of real mental health assistance and followup in Ontario is of great concern for Indigenous people in particular,” Herbert said, “and should be a great concern for all Canadians so that we don’t see preventable tragedies like the death of Mr. Snache did, over and over again,” Snache’s lawyer, Jay Herbert, said in an email to The Record. The case is “a sad example of what happens when our mental health system fails to follow up with people who are seeking mental health assistance, as Mr. But he did not get it, at least not the help he needed.” Snache needed help,” Superior Court Justice Cary Boswell said in finding him NCR last month. The killer, Justice Snache, was found not criminally responsible (NCR) of second-degree murder in the November 2020 unprovoked knife attack on Derek Simmerson, 34. Mary’s General Hospital in Kitchener, in the months before he killed a random pedestrian in Orillia. A 19-year-old man with schizophrenia sought help at four Ontario hospitals, including St.
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