She was concerned enough to call the Ottawa Police Service, which performed a mental health screening but did not think he needed hospitalization, she said. When his father returned from an overseas military deployment, he and McLean got Tevis picked up on a 72-hour mental health hold. After three failed brushes with the mental health system, afraid of him and believing she couldn’t get through to him, she stopped seeing him in April 2016. as he was leaving home to commit a suicide bombing for ISIL, Tevis texted her. “He told his mother that Driver’s death would be avenged soon,” Crown lawyer Celine Harrington told the Ontario Court of Justice.

Source: National Post February 01, 2017 22:03 UTC