Yosif Al-Hasnawi's mother says in a statement read at the sentencing of two Hamilton paramedics that the 19-year-old's death "feels like someone has ripped your heart out of your chest." The hearing for the men, found guilty of failing to give proper care to Al-Hasnawi after he was shot in 2017, continues Tuesday.
Posted: Dec 23, 2020 6:57 PM ET | Last Updated: December 23, 2020
Paramedics told their dispatcher that Yosif Al-Hasnawi was having a psychiatric emergency. But Dr. Richard Verbeek, a medical director for Toronto paramedics, said their call to the hospital shows differently. (Samantha Craggs/CBC)
The defence of one of the paramedics accused of not properly caring for a dying patient in Hamilton says he s not disputing it was a mistake when the ambulance went to St. Joseph s Hospital.
Jeffrey Manishen said it appeared the former Hamilton paramedics in the landmark trial Christopher Marchant, 32, and Steven Snively, 55 thought the primary problem for gunshot victim Yosif Al-Hasnawi was a psychiatric emergency.
Yosif Al-Hasnawi asked Is this how I m going to die? witness says at trial of paramedics
A teenager who was there the night Yosif Al-Hasnawi was shot said Al-Hasnawi was afraid he was going to die. The teen testified Tuesday in the landmark trial of two former Hamilton paramedics.
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