A mother and father say their mentally ill son needed help and two medical facilities they trusted failed them, leading to his death at the hands of police.

Channel 2′s Tom Jones was at a news conference where the parents said mental illness shouldn’t be a death sentence. The ...

The parents of a man with mental illness who in April escaped from a hospital, then lunged at and was shot dead by police, are suing for what they say was a failure of the system to protect their son.