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By James Peters / Michael Reeve

Police Response

RCMP swarm West End street due to distraught, potentially armed person

Jun 10, 2022 | 1:44 PM

KAMLOOPS — UPDATE: Kamloops RCMP say a high-risk situation on Sequoia Place is over and one person has been apprehended.

Police were alerted to a situation at a home in the 700-block of Sequoia Place Friday morning. Officers were sent to check on the well-being of a person.

In a news release, RCMP say the individual was believed to be in emotional distress. Information led police to the weapons were available to the individual and the situation was deemed high-risk.

The Southeast District Emergency Response Team was called to assist.  After hours of unsuccessful negotiation, police entered the home and apprehended one person under the Mental Health Act. He was taken to the hospital for medical assessment and care. No charges are being recommended at this time.

Police say the area was cleared at 6:30 p.m.

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Mounties are thanking the public for its assistance through the incident.

KAMLOOPS — RCMP have Sequoia Place in the West End area of Kamloops cordoned off for a police response to a person in mental distress who may be armed.

CFJC Today‘s Michael Reeve has spoken to local resident Colleen Bell, who says her son is the subject of the response.

Bell says her son had a diagnosed mental health condition, paranoid schizophrenia, and has not been taking his medication.

RCMP are on scene due to reports he has a crossbow, though Bell says she doubts he knows how to use it.

“I’m told that he’s considered hostile, and I said, wait a minute, he is paranoid schizophrenic, he is not violent, not at all. I’m told he’s got something. When the Ukraine crisis started, he has a big huge TV and he has had that news channel on the whole time watching it. So he started ordering supplies for Armageddon and he ordered a bloody crossbow,” said Bell.

Bell told Reeve Car 40, the City’s collaboration between Interior Health and RCMP for mental health calls, attended and left after declaring her son hostile.

She adds she wants information about her son shared and is begging for better mental health supports for struggling Kamloops residents.

“They have to change some of the rules here. If this man, my son, has been a schizophrenic for a few years now. If he has been hospitalized by force this many times now. He needs to go on a life long, you will take your medicine or you won’t go home. We can’t waste our resources with this, and we can’t risk somebody getting shot just because they are sick,” said Bell.

Image Credit: CFJC Today / Michael Reeve