No decision on Manitoba mother, kids death inquest until fall: medical examiner

WINNIPEG – Manitoba’s chief medical examiner says he won’t make a decision on whether to call an inquest into the deaths of a woman and her two children until late fall.

The medical examiner’s office says provincial law dictates that a thorough investigation be done first into the circumstances of the deaths.

The office says that will take a few months.

Lisa Gibson’s two children were found unresponsive in the bathtub of the family’s Winnipeg home last week.

The 32-year-old mother’s body was found in the Red River a few days later.

A memorial for Gibson, two-year-old Anna and infant son Nicholas is to be held Thursday.