A coroner's jury is calling on the province to ensure police crisis negotiators have access to a qualified and resourced mental health worker during emergency calls.
On day three of the coroner s inquest into the death of 63-year-old Barry Shantz, the jury heard an on-call psychologist contracted by the RCMP didn t return a voicemail left by police until two weeks after the incident.
The police who responded to a 911 call about a suicidal man told the coroner’s jury in Burnaby, B.C., that when they arrived, Barry Shantz shot at them through a window.
On day two of the coroner s inquest into the death of a man shot by a police sniper in Lytton in January 2020, a pair of RCMP officers testified Barry Shantz fired a shotgun in their general direction.
A Coroner s inquest into the death of a well-known British Columbia homeless advocate began in Burnaby Tuesday, more than three-and-a-half years after he was killed by an RCMP sniper during a standoff in Lytton.