Coroner's jury releases 35 recommendations in police custody deaths of 2 Oji-Cree men in Thunder Bay, Ont. cbc.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cbc.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A medical expert testified that had Don Mamakwa received medical treatment, he would have very likely survived. The coroner's inquest into the deaths of Mamakwa and Roland McKay, who both died while in Thunder Bay Police Service custody, continued on Tuesday for a sixth day.
Don Mamakwa of Kasabonika Lake First Nation had a 97 per cent chance of surviving the night if he had been brought to hospital instead of a Thunder Bay, Ont., police cell in August 2014, an emergency-room physician tells an inquest.