Jer Wood’s mother, who was the first to testify at the inquest, says her son, who died on his 39th birthday, had become addicted after a work injury
A week-long inquest began Tuesday into the 2018 death of a man who shot himself in the head at the Departure Bay ferry terminal just as police aimed several shots at his chest.
Officers from the Nanaimo RCMP and the Island District Emergency Response Team were positioned to intercept him as he drove off the ferry at Departure Bay. They didn’t find out about the name change until his body was released to the funeral home, she said. Smallwood said her son fled to Nanaimo from the Okanagan just before his death after the non-fatal shooting of one of the drug dealers who had been supplying him with street drugs.
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