A Quebec coroner's inquiry is hearing Monday from police officers who had interacted with a mentally ill man in the months before he killed a provincial police sergeant.
Serge Brouillard described his son as an intelligent lover of nature who played high-level soccer as a youth and was always ready to help others around him.
Dr. Poirier was one of several psychiatrists to testify about treatment Isaac Brouillard Lessard received stretching back a decade. He fatally stabbed an SQ officer last March.
Isaac Brouillard Lessard fatally stabbed Sgt. Maureen Breau and seriously wounded her partner while they tried to arrest him for uttering threats and violating probation.