Steven Snively, one of the accused former paramedics, will testify in his own defence in the Ontario Superior Court trial. He's charged with failing to provide the necessaries of life for a shooting victim, Yosif Al-Hasnawi.
Christopher Marchant, one of the former paramedics charged with not properly caring for Yosif Al-Hasnawi the night he was shot and died, agrees that he feels partly responsible for his death. But he doesn't blame himself.
Posted: Dec 21, 2020 11:56 AM ET | Last Updated: December 21, 2020
Yosif Al-Hasnawi was shot and killed on Dec. 2, 2017. (Al-Mostafa Islamic Centre)
A medical director who oversees paramedic services says paramedics must assume the worst, and assume that until proven otherwise when responding to a call, like the one where Yosif Al-Hasnawi was shot and killed on Dec. 2, 2017. What I say to trainees is you start with saying to yourself, what could kill this patient? said Dr. Richard Verbeek, medical director for Toronto paramedics at the Sunnybrook Centre for Prehospital Medicine.
He testified on Monday at the trial of two former Hamilton paramedics Christopher Marchant, 32, and Steven Snively, 55 who are charged with failing to provide the necessaries of life for the teenager. They have pleaded not guilty in the landmark trial where paramedics are criminally charged based on the care they give a patient.
Firefighters were turned away and a paramedic laughed as shot teen lay dying, court hears
All three Hamilton firefighters who were dispatched to the area of Sanford Avenue and Main Street East on Dec. 2, 2017, testified in Ontario Superior Court Wednesday that they were ready to help Yosif Al-Hasnawi, a 19-year-old man who had been shot by what paramedics thought was a BB gun but turned out to be a handgun, but were turned away by other first responders.
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