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Review after local mental patient escape

Local health care officials will be reviewing the escape of a dangerous patient from the Daly Pavilion facility in Trail Saturday evening.

18 year old Alexis Grenier jumped a ten foot fence after getting access to the outside courtyard area.

Interior Health’s Lynn Miller – a manager with Kootenay-Boundary Mental Health – says that courtyard door is normally locked for high risk patients.

She says police were notified immediately the young man escaped.

He was delusional and has homicidal hallucinations.

Several tips from the public helped track him to Nelson Sunday evening where he was picked up by the NPD.

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