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HEROES: Mansfield Officers Recognized For Rescuing Schizophrenic Man Holding Knife To Throat HEROES: Mansfield Officers Recognized For Rescuing Schizophrenic Man Holding Knife To Throat
Heroes: Mansfield Officers Recognized For Rescuing Schizophrenic Man Holding Knife To Throat Three members of the Mansfield Township Police Department have been recognized with Meritorious Service Awards after they saved a man with schizophrenia who was holding a knife to his throat. Officer Michael Citarelli, Officer Thomas Hill and Detective Michael Camerata were called to a local residence where a 31-year-old man who suffers from schizophrenia was having a psychological episode around 11:45 a.m. on Monday, March 2, township police said in a release. The man — whose family told police that he had not been taking his medications and had been threatening them for several days prior…

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by Valerie Musson