TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (WOOD) — Nine months before Bradford Gille was accused of stabbing 11 people at a Traverse City-area Walmart, the state mental health system abruptly stopped treating him without explanation, despite its own final public report that showed he was still a potential danger to himself or others, according to a Target 8 review of court records.

That final report also included a bizarre, rambling email from Gille that, according to an expert, showed he was still troubled.

"He should not have been lost in the system and he was," former state of Michigan Department of Mental Health Director Jim Haveman said. "It's unfortunate."

Haveman, who oversaw the state's mental health system from 1990 to 2002 and the state Department of Community Health after that, said the stabbing

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