Carey Rigby-Wilcox is still haunted by the last time she spoke to her son. “He said, ‘Mom, I can’t take it, I can’t deal with this anymore,’” she told Global News. “And then he put the gun in the air and shot it twice, and said, ‘this is real.’” Rigby-Wilcox was speaking to her son on Dec.
22, 2018, shortly before he was killed in a confrontation with Saskatoon police. It was two days after he was released from the Dubé Centre for Mental Health.
More than a year later, she said she still doesn’t know how exactly her son died. She said the police haven’t given her any information, so she was waiting for an inquest from the Saskatchewan Coroners Service to be completed.