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The Mohawk woman had open-heart surgery less than two weeks before she was arrested and remanded to the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre.

The Mohawk woman had open-heart surgery less than two weeks before she was arrested and remanded to the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre.

The Mohawk woman had open-heart surgery less than two weeks before she was arrested and remanded to the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre.

The jury at the coroner's inquest into the death of Shannon Sargent has begun deliberations following 13 days of testimony from witnesses and experts. They've been asked to determine whether the Indigenous woman's death in her Ottawa jail cell was a homicide.

A veteran corrections officer said it was a foregone conclusion that Shannon Sargent was being escorted to hospital to be triaged.

Diane Longmuir told a coroners inquest on Wednesday she was sure Sargent would have been admitted to hospital, not returned to jail.

A guard at the Ottawa jail warned that Sargent was too ill to be accepted, but was overruled by her superiors. Sargent died the next day.

A guard at the Ottawa jail warned that Sargent was too ill to be accepted, but was overruled by her superiors. Sargent died the next 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.

The inquest into the deaths of Donald Mamakwa and Roland McKay, who both died while in Thunder Bay Police Service custody, will take place in Thunder Bay on Oct. 11, 2022.