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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kayla Brown’s parents contacted 911 to seek help for their daughter who wasn’t acting normal after consuming drugs.  Why did the authorities leave her unattended at the hospital? She should have been under constant supervision by hospital staff or security. I feel that this is the fault of our law enforcement and health care system. We need a better way to address mental illness and drug abuse. The law enforcement and hospital need to take some blame for this event.[/quote]

Do you realize how much staffing is necessary to stay with every patient like the carjacker?  Good luck with that. [/quote]

I had a family member taken into a an ER on psych watch —- two different hospitals and they both had someone stationed at her door to watch.  That’s standard protocol for psych admits.  Possible she overpowered that person — they aren’t cops, just staffers.  But they do typically assign one on one observation for psych cases.  And my family member was just a little depressed—not “acting crazy” like this.[/quote]

Do we know if the carjacker was a psych admit?[/quote]
I don't even think she'd been admitted yet. From the sounds of the court documents that were released, she and the woman who died just had the misfortune of arriving at the ER at the same time. It does not sound like a mental health crisis, it sounds like she took bad drugs.

She should absolutely be in jail for carjacking - drugs are no excuse. Unfortunately I have no faith in the DC courts to bother if it was just carjacking. However, the court documents also make it sound like the woman who died was mid-heart attack or stroke en route to the ER entrance. So it will be very, very difficult to prove that Kayla killed her. I certainly don't think she died in the crash - if she died, why wasn't Kayla seriously injured? [/quote]

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