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A Nova Scotia provincial tribunal justice has ordered a psychiatric appraisal for a antheral accused of a convulsive onslaught successful the exigency section of the province’s largest infirmary successful January.
Nicholas Robert Coulombe faces 9 charges, including attempted execution and aggravated assault
CBC News
· Posted: May 01, 2025 1:29 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago
A Halifax provincial tribunal justice has ordered a psychiatric appraisal for a antheral accused of a convulsive onslaught successful the exigency section of the province's largest infirmary successful January.
Nicholas Robert Coulombe, 32, made a little quality successful tribunal Thursday morning. He's facing 9 charges, including attempted execution and aggravated assault, successful narration to a Jan. 29 incidental successful which a antheral stabbed 2 unit members astatine the Halifax Infirmary. One of them was critically injured.
Legal assistance lawyer Colin Smith requested the assessment, telling the tribunal that Coulombe has a past of intelligence wellness issues.
The appraisal volition beryllium performed astatine the East Coast Forensic Hospital successful Dartmouth, Nova Scotia's lone unafraid intelligence wellness facility. It volition assistance find whether Coulombe tin beryllium held criminally liable connected the charges.
He is scheduled to instrumentality to tribunal astatine the extremity of this month.
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