the next morning i monday, the 18th, when i got to work, i called after they were open, i called the csb, and i talked to a fellow there who said i explained to him the problem, he said, you need to get to a imagine industry and get an eco issued. eco is? emergency custody order. my concern is that he s only held for 48 or 72 hours, he comes home and i have the same problem again. this guy said don t worry, we ll try to work with you to get placement at western state. that cuts you to the core when you hear your son might be hospitalized long term, at least he would be alive. at least where there s life, there s hope. i went to the magistrate, i got the cs i got the thing issued, eco.
and so, the next morning, on monday, the 18th, when i got to work, i called, after they were opened, i called the csb, and i talked to a fella there who, i explained to him the problem. he said, you need to get to the magistrate and see if you can get an eco issued. and i said my frustration with that eco is? emergency custody order. i said my concern is he s only held for 48 or 72 hours, then he comes home and i ve got the same problem again. and this guy said, don t worry, we ll try to work with you to get a long-term placement in western state. and that cuts to the core when you hear that your son, your pride and joy, might need to be hospitalized long term. but at least he d be alive. at least where there s life, there s hope. and i went to this emergency strait, i got the thing issued, eco. i went to the house and i sat
guns and i a journal he had been keeping? yeah. the next morning i monday, the 18th, when i got to work, i called after they were open, i called the csb, and i talked to a fellow there who said i explained to him the problem, he said, you need to get to a imagine industry and get an eco issued. eco is? emergency custody order. my concern is that he s only held for 48 or 72 hours, he comes home and i have the same problem again. this guy said don t worry, we ll try to work with you to get placement at western state. that cuts you to the core when you hear your son might be hospitalized long term, at least he would be alive. at least where there s life, there s hope. i went to the magistrate, i got
deep in shock and unaware that his son was dead. with that, we keep working, we keep fighting. reporter: deeds is a well-known democratic politician in virginia. in 2009, he launched a campaign for governor with his son, gus, on the campaign trail with him. the two were close, gus the only boy in the family. they lived a seemingly normal, happy life, but at some point in his early 20s, gus began to change. his parents feared he was bipolar, maybe even schizophrenic. a month before the attack, gus dropped out of college. on november 18th of last year, creigh deeds took his son to the local hospital for a mental health evaluation. a magistrate had issued an emergency custody order, which meant they found gus to be homicidal, suicidal or unable to care for himself, but the hospital had no psychiatric beds available for gus and released him. under virginia state law, six hours is the maximum time a person can be held in emergency
conan and he took it back. that was not what happened, okay? not. jay says it was never his decision to leave or to push conan out to come back. he just followed nbc s wishes virginia state senator, creigh deeds, is speaking out about the attack at the hands of his own son that left him physically scarred. he is trying to change the way mentally ill patients are treated. two months ago, deed s son stabbed him in the chest and head before taking his own life. hours earlier his son had been under a six-hour emergency custody order at a hospital. he was later released because there were no beds available inside the psychiatric treatment center. he told 60 minutes the system failed his son. the whole afternoon, gus didn t sit down e paced the floor. he would look at me and smile. i had this sinking feeling that he wasn t going to be hospitalized. if you didn t find a hospital bed in six hours, gus was coming