Man shot dead by police in Brisbane’s CBD did not take schizophrenia medication that day, inquest hears

The inquest heard Mohamad Ikraam Bahram was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2017 and last reviewed by a mental health team less than a week before he died. Photograph: Nasera Rane

A man shot dead by police in Brisbane’s CBD in 2020 had not taken his schizophrenia medication when he stabbed a tourist before charging at an officer with a knife, an inquest has heard.

Coroner Terry Ryan, who is examining the death of 24-year-old Mohamad Ikraam Bahram, on Wednesday heard that his family were alarmed by their son’s abrupt departure from their home on 23 February 2020, which they believed was “out of character”.