Forcible restraint by police among factors in Myles Gray death, pathologist says
Had Myles Gray not interacted with Vancouver police on Aug. 13, 2015, he likely wouldn’t have died that day, a forensic pathologist told the inquest into his death.
Orde said he believed Gray had been experiencing an acute behavioural disturbance and his body would have been working in overdrive as he struggled with police. Gray’s heart would have been pumping rapidly and he would have been breathing heavily, his body working to expel lactic acid and carbon dioxide, Orde said.
Gray had bruises consistent with being struck with a rigid object, such as a police baton, as well as a “blowout fracture” in one of his eye sockets, a fractured nasal bone and rib and hemorrhaging in his testicles, he said. “In the context of someone who’s extremely fatigued, body is fully ramped up … I think these issues would be enough to tip him over the edge,” Orde said.
Orde told the inquest the term has been used in the past to describe a “constellation” of agitated behavioural patterns. On occasion, it was thought “so-called excited delirium syndrome” could result independently in death, he said.
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