GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A man shot and injured by Grand Rapids police on the city’s West Side last month had been released from a mental health facility just days earlier, after stabbing himself repeatedly in the neck.

The mother of Xzavion Troutman, 30, said the mental health system failed her son, though she doesn’t blame police for shooting him.

An undated courtesy photo of Xzavion Troutman.

“I think if they’d have kept him at Forest View (Hospital) or sent him to Pine Rest (Christian Mental Health Services) to get the help that he really needed, I don’t think it would have happened,” mom Pauline Irving said.

GRPD: Officers shoot, injure man after he charged them with knife

While police have refused to release body camera video of the shooting, citing privacy of the man who was shot and his family, it was Troutman’s mother who provided Target 8 with doorbell camera video.

She said he was visiting his brother’s house on Broadway Avenue NW near Fourth Street on Sept. 25. She said her other son told her he called 911 after Xzavion pulled a knife on him. The doorbell camera video from her son’s front porch shows officers trying to talk him into dropping knives and leaving the house.

“Don’t get the knives, just leave without ’em, bro,” an officer said. “You can get them some other time. Tonight’s not the night, OK? You literally just walk out that door and take off and you’re good.”

Police have said that the suspect charged officers with a knife, leading two officers to deploy Tasers, which were ineffective. The officers then shot him, striking him multiple times.

“He probably should have been dead when he jumped at them with a knife in his hand,” his mom said. “I think they gave him enough time to try to do what was right, and I think they really handled it at the time the best they could.”

However, she questions how many shots were fired and why a police dog bit her son after he was down. The doorbell camera stopped recording before that happened, but police confirmed he was bitten.

Irving said her son was shot in the arm and the pelvis, suffering injuries to his bladder and intestines.

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She said he never should have been out that day.

He was a running back at Kenowa Hills High School, but by 2018, when he was 23, he started hallucinating and hearing voices that told him to hurt himself and to hurt random people, court records show.

Records show he was paroled in May from prison, where he was serving time for assault and possession of meth.

Then, in mid-September, about two weeks before police shot him, he stabbed himself repeatedly with a knife after an argument with his girlfriend in Sparta — 8 to 10 times in the neck.

“He stabbed himself in the jugular, so they had to do surgery,” his mother said. “They didn’t think he’d make it through, off the operating table. They didn’t think he’d make it.”

A medical social worker at Corewell Health Butterworth Hospital filed a petition in Kent County Probate Court for involuntary mental health treatment on Sept. 16 after the self-inflicted stabbing.

“Patient was admitted with numerous self-inflicted stab wounds to neck, chest and abdomen that were intentional,” the social worker wrote.

A doctor diagnosed Troutman with major depressive disorder, writing that his suicide attempt was “nearly successful, and he required emergency surgery and ICU level care to save his life.”

Another report said Troutman “felt trapped and didn’t want to return to prison.”

An initial court order called for 180 days of treatment, including up to 60 days at Forest View Hospital. His mother said Forest View discharged him in less than a week, leaving him homeless.

“They said that he didn’t really have a mental health issue, he had a drug issue, which he does have a drug issue that I’m aware of, but I felt like somebody stabbing themself that many times, and stabbing himself in the jugular is a mental issue.”

Troutman’s mother said she asked Grand Rapids police not to publicly share the bodycam video until they showed it to her first. She said that hasn’t happened.

The Grand Rapids Police Department refused to comment, citing the ongoing Michigan State Police investigation. A Forest View Hospital administrator declined comment due to patient privacy.

Troutman has already returned to prison for violating parole, according to the state Department of Corrections.