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By James Peters

IIO

No charges against Kamloops RCMP officer in 2022 North Shore bus loop death

Feb 13, 2023 | 10:54 AM

KAMLOOPS — A Kamloops RCMP officer who drove away after being asked to check on a man slumped over at the North Shore bus loop will not face charges.

In its report issued Monday (Feb. 13), the Independent Investigations Office notes the subject of the wellness check request was later discovered dead of a fentanyl overdose.

The incident happened on June 28, 2022. A man walking past the bus loop noticed two men slumped over. The witness then spotted a Kamloops RCMP filling his cruiser at the nearby gas station. He approached the officer and requested he check on the men at the bus loop.

According to the witness, the officer assured him that he would check on the two. Instead, both witness and GPS information from the cruiser confirm the officer drove away in the opposite direction.

After a 90-minute interval, another witness report and life-saving measures taken by paramedics, the victim was pronounced dead.

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In his report, IIO Chief Civilian Director Ron MacDonald noted there was “no eyewitness or expert medical evidence” to help determine the victim’s time of death or when medical intervention might have been able to save him. MacDonald says that means there is no way to know whether a wellness check by the officer would have helped save his life.

MacDonald concludes the officer should have checked on the man, but there are no reasonable grounds to believe that the officer committed negligence or any other offence.