Natalie Chuck joined Denver7 Investigates in May 2024. Previously, she worked as a Multimedia Journalist in San Diego where she covered historic flooding, wrongful-death lawsuits, and cold cases.
Scott Green is a typical family doctor who found himself in an atypical situation: the victim of a violent crime.In May 2022, a man walked into Green's Lakewood office and stabbed him in the stomach. He said the wound should have been fatal, but he was lucky and survived. The suspect, Ross McPherson, who was 28 at the time, left the scene and was arrested about a week later. He was charged with multiple crimes, including attempted first-degree murder.
However, a bed must be available before a judge can civilly commit someone.A civil commitment is one of the few ways people in Colorado in need of mental health services can be involuntarily committed to a hospital. Civil commitments are considered a 'last resort,' according to the Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council. This process is court-ordered, but a civil matter, not criminal.And beds at the state hospital are hard to come by.
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