Abdulla Shaikh enjoyed giving “blowjobs” to other patients during a psychiatric stay at the Cité-de-la-Santé in Laval. He threatened to kill a psychiatrist and the court also banned him from contacting a guardian. This emerged on Thursday from the hearings held as part of the public inquiry into the murder of three people by Abdulla Shaikh.
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Abdulla Shaikh was hospitalized three times between 2018 and 2021 to treat his schizophrenia. In all three cases, the patient never recognized his illness and was hesitant to take his medication. However, he was polite and accepted that doctors would contact his family if necessary.
However, during his third hospitalization, psychiatrists noticed signs of an antisocial personality. “He had to stay in his room because he refused treatment. He has negatively influenced the other most vulnerable patients, he has made them jump in quotes,” explained the psychiatrist Martin Vézina.
“He enjoyed seeing white codes, moments of excitement. It even made him laugh,” he added during his testimony before coroner Géhane Kamel.
On August 2 and 3, 2022, Abdulla Shaikh shot three people indiscriminately in Laval and Montreal. On the 4th, he was killed by Montreal police officers in a motel where he was hiding. André Lemieux, Mohamed Belhaj and Alex Lévis-Crevier died in this deadly rampage.
Dr. However, Martin Vézina doubts that Abdulla Shaikh acted during an episode of schizophrenia. During his previous seizures, Shaikh was disorganized, had difficulty speaking, drove quickly, became agitated, and suffered from delusions of poisoning. “Those were warning signs. We saw it coming,” he explained.
Conversely, the actions carried out in Laval and Montreal were organized, he argued. “ [C’est] a long deliberate gesture with a precise goal. He had several weapons. This is not at all typical of psychosis. “We are more like someone who has a personality disorder, who wants to hurt and plans his actions,” said the psychiatrist, specifying that a real diagnosis will never be possible.
Psychiatrist Simon Roussel today unveiled a national study showing that psychiatric patients involved in crime are twice as likely to reoffend in Quebec than in Ontario or British Columbia. Patients are also held for shorter periods of time in Quebec and their psychiatric follow-up visits are shorter.
The day before, the doctor read a letter he sent to the CISSS de Laval in August 2022 to denounce the shortage of psychiatrists. A similar letter was belatedly sent a year later to Lionel Carmant, the minister responsible for social services. Normally the Cité-de-la-Santé must have 60 psychiatrists; There are currently only 18 of them, four of which have reduced workloads.