Police respond to suicide call

On Feb. 6 around 11:30 a.m., a man calls 911 asking for help from the police. The man’s wife who has suicidal tendencies has left their home on Robert-Élie Blvd. in her car and is reported to have taken some medication.
The police locate her at the corner of Industriel Blvd. and Cunard Ave. One of the officers gets out of the cruiser in order to speak to her, but all attempts to communicate with her are in vain. The woman tries to drive away from the area, but is blocked by the patrol car which the officers have placed in a way to prevent her from leaving.
The woman then drives towards the officer outside the car, hitting him in the legs, before fleeing in her car towards Autoroute 440. The officer, shaken but not seriously injured, gets back into the police car which chases after the lady. She is found at the intersection of Saint- Martin and des Laurentides boulevards where she tries to hide her car among others parked there.
“When the officers finally caught up with her she didn’t resist being arrested,” said Nathalie Lorrain. “She was speaking incoherently and about suicide and was asking the police to shoot her.” The woman, who faces charges of armed assault on a police officer, was sent to Cité de la Santé. The woman, who was released from that same hospital the previous day after making an initial suicide attempt, was taking prescribed medication.