Kaitlin Perras

• Political interference alleged in assessment hearings in Matthew de Grood case

  Alberta's high court is being asked to overturn a decision relating to the stabbing deaths of five young people on the grounds the former provincial justice minister interfered.

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  Feb 3, 2023
  
• Matthew de Grood remains ‘significant risk’: Alberta Review Board

  Matthew de Grood remains a significant threat to public safety and "is not entitled to an absolute discharge” at this time, the Alberta Review Board has ruled.

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  Oct 11, 2022
  
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• Mentally ill man who stabbed 5 people at Calgary party appeals denial of freedoms

  A provincial mental health review board said Matthew de Grood is making progress but will not be allowed to go into a group home.

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  Oct 2, 2020
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• Matthew de Grood, who killed 5 while delusional in Calgary is making progress: psychiatrist

  A psychiatrist treating a mentally-ill man who killed five young people at a Calgary house party said Matthew de Grood has made progress but any new freedoms will be granted slowly.

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  Sep 8, 2020
• Review board hears Matthew de Grood doing well, should have unsupervised outings

  A judge in 2016 found de Grood not criminally responsible for the killings because he was suffering from schizophrenia at the time.

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  Sep 17, 2019
• 5 young people remembered on 5th anniversary of Calgary’s worst mass killing

  It’s been five years since five young people lost their lives in Calgary's worst massing killing.

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  Apr 15, 2019
• Matthew de Grood to be moved to Edmonton for reintegration, given more freedoms

  Matthew de Grood, now 27, was found not criminally responsible for the 2014 stabbing deaths of Kaiti Perras, Josh Hunter, Zackariah Rathwell, Jordan Segura and Lawrence Hong.

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  Oct 3, 2018
• Matthew de Grood ‘truly sorry’, families of victims express concern at annual hearing

  De Grood was suffering from a mental disorder when he attacked and killed Zackariah Rathwell, 21, Jordan Segura, 22, Josh Hunter, 23, Kaitlin Perras, 23, and Lawrence Hong, 27, in April 2014. The judge ruled de Grood didn't understand his actions were wrong.

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  Sep 7, 2018
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• ‘Model patient’ Matthew de Grood to seek reintegration into society despite concerns

  Ten months after he was declared not criminally responsible (NCR) for the worst mass killing in Calgary's history, Matthew de Grood will start seeking freedoms.

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  Mar 29, 2017
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• Families of Brentwood 5 victims want Matthew de Grood hospitalized indefinitely

  Last May, Matthew de Grood was found not criminally responsible (NCR), meaning he was found to have been mentally ill at the time of the Brentwood stabbings.

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  Mar 28, 2017