Covenant House charity is being accused of negligence in the young man’s death, according to a claim in B.C Supreme Court.
VANCOUVER — The parents of man who died of an overdose of a mix of opioids and alcohol while living at a downtown shelter run by Covenant House Vancouver are suing the charity for his death.
Akimana, who had experienced earlier trauma and had “mental health challenges and issues with problematic alcohol and substance use,” was referred to the shelter on Seymour Street in June 2022 by his case manager and by his probation officer “because he was a young person with complex needs who could not live at home,” the claim said.
The coroner’s report found the combined “use of opioids and alcohol had” stopped his breathing, the lawsuit said. The shelter owed him a duty of care and the harm he suffered was “reasonably foreseeable” because there was a “close and direct relationship of proximity” between them, it said.
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