‘Profound regret’: RCMP apologizes to N.B. families after wrong body ID
, an unhoused man who was released from incarceration on the morning of Nov. 21, with no money, no winter clothes and nowhere to go.
Landry’s mother, Mary MacDonald, said earlier in the week that he had survived an overdose at a supervised consumption site that afternoon, where staff were unable to find him a warm place to spend the night. He died that night, and his body was found in a washroom outside Moncton City Hall that is heated just enough to keep pipes from freezing.MacDonald is calling for change, saying a number of systemic failures led to his death.
“Something has to change, and it has to change quickly because we’re going into winter,” MacDonald said in an interview from her home in Prince George, B.C. “And my son, his name should mean something. He’s not a statistic, he’s not a homeless person only.”“Why didn’t they just check fingerprints?” she asked, noting that her son’s prints were likely on file as he had just been released from custody.
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