Coroner told Gabriel Messo attacked his mother before being shot three times by a police officer in 2020
A Victorian man who was shot dead by police after violently assaulting his mother told a social worker that he wanted an officer to kill him so his pain would end, an inquest has heard.
He was taken to hospital under police guard as it appeared he was either drug-affected or in a psychotic episode. The counsel assisting the coroner, Ben Ihle QC, said Gabriel was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2014 after he experienced his first episode of psychosis.
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