Jerry Smallwood, 39, was shot by Mounties numerous times after he fatally shot himself. Now, a coroner's inquest will try to learn more.
A coroner’s inquest into the fatal 2018 police shooting at Departure Bay ferry terminal got underway in Nanaimo on Tuesday.
Shots then rang out as the man inside raised a gun to his head and shot himself, and two officers also shot him numerous times. Now, six-and-a-half years later, a coroner’s inquest into the shooting death has commenced in Nanaimo to learn more about what happened.The victim’s mother, Sharon Smallwood, was the first to testify, starting off by saying Jerry had a normal, happy upbringing in Winnipeg.She said in later years, he had suffered a back injury at work that led to prescription drugs that led to him using street drugs.
The inquest heard that he was having a dispute with a drug dealer in Vernon and that he told Frost on the night of May 7, 2018, that he had “wasted someone in a parking lot.”
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