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Abe Maddison

Call before shooting 'not satisfactory', coroner finds

Body-worn camera footage captured the confrontation between police and Kobee Huddy. (HANDOUT/CORONERS COURT OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA)

A mental health crisis line social worker's response to a plea for help from a suicidal young man killed hours later by police was "not satisfactory", a coroner has found.

Kobee Huddy, 20, was brandishing a large knife and advancing on a police officer when he was fatally shot in Seaton, in Adelaide's western suburbs, in May 2019.  

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