A judge in Belleville has found a Frankford man was not criminally responsible for a 2024 shooting because the man had a mental disorder.

Quinte West OPP charged Mitchell Barink, then 27, on Oct. 31, 2024. Police at the time stated a woman had been shot earlier that day; she suffered life-threatening injuries. Emergency responders arrived on Belleville Street in Frankford at about 2 a.m. and police issued a shelter-in-place order until they made an arrest nearby.

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Barink appeared Thursday in Belleville’s Ontario Court of Justice before Justice Joseph Dart, where he was arraigned on the attempted murder charge.

Barink pleaded he was not criminally responsible for the shooting because he was suffering a mental disorder at the time of the incident, Hastings County Crow

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