Fatality Inquiry News Today

A fatality inquiry got underway Monday morning into the death of a 23-year-old man who died by suicide in a solitary cell at the Edmonton Remand Centre.

The owner of the Edmonton bar that two men attended before dying outside in the cold in 2017 and 2018 told a fatality inquiry Thursday that he thinks about the deaths all the time.

AGLC inspector Andrew Wieb received two complaints after 20-year-old Mohamed Munyeabdi was found dead under a car near a south Edmonton bar in November 2018.

Fatality inquiries began Monday for two young men who were found dead in freezing conditions after leaving an Edmonton nightclub -- one in the winter of 2017 and the other in 2018.

Judge Warren Zimmer was appointed to lead the fatality inquiry that investigated why Afghanistan war veteran Lionel Desmond killed three family members and himself in 2017.

The attorney general has asked the chief judge of the provincial court to assign a new judge to finish the work started by the man who was presiding over the fatality inquiry.

The provincial fatality inquiry investigated why the Afghanistan war veteran killed three members of his family and himself in their rural Nova Scotia home in January 2017.

The inquiry has been adjourned until April 19.

A group that supports Black students, professionals and entrepreneurs in Calgary is calling for a transparent inquiry into the death of Latjor Tuel at the hands of the Calgary Police Service.