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1 Denise Paley holds up a photograph of her son, Ellis Tibere, at a virtual public hearing last month. Paley is pushing for more mental health training for police officers a little over a year after Tibere randomly attacked a woman in a Westport parking lot during an apparent mental health crisis. Image capture from CT-N )
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It was the evening of Jan. 5 last year that Denise Paley walked into the Guilford Police Department (GPD) headquarters. Her 18-year-old son, Ellis Tibere, had left the house around noon, ostensibly to meet friends at the library to work on school, but had never arrived, and Paley quickly became worried as he did not respond to phone calls or text messages.
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Ellis Tibere, who had then recently turned 18, was charged last year by Westport police with the stabbing of a woman in a beauty salon parking lot. His family said the random attack was a result of his serious mental illness. (Westport Police Department/Tibere family photo)
GUILFORD, CT A month before then-18-year-old Ellis Tibere was accused of the Jan. 6, 2020, attack of a woman in a Westport beauty salon parking lot, the Guilford High School senior had received his college acceptance and presidential scholarship letters.
Tibere was a high-performing student, a community and synagogue volunteer, and a Unified Sports ambassador, who spent his last two years in high school enrolled in the International Baccalaureate World School Diploma program.