Cory Augustine McDonald
Dec. 21, 1992 - Dec. 15, 2022
On the evening of December 15th, 2022, in a Vancouver neighborhood, the accumulative effects of battling mental health issues came to a tragic end for Cory Augustine McDonald in a very unexpected and unintentional way. He had been reported to have been wandering the area across town from his mother (where until recently, he had been living), attempting to open doors. At one home the woman living there opened the door and he told her he believed his mother lived there. After forcing the door closed, she witnessed him running next door, jumping from the neighbor’s car to the roof of the house and breaking the window. Within seconds as he struggled to make his way through the blinds over the desk and chair and into the room, he was shot 3 times by the occupant. He was unarmed, he was cold (it was 30 degrees on its way to 27), he was in an altered mental state, and he was just trying to find his way home. But he never did. He died on the floor of that home office within seconds after being shot.
Cory began suffering with anxiety and night terrors from the age of 5 and he was never free from it. With adolescence, it only intensified, and he began a common pattern of self-medicating that turned to
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