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Inquest hears responders did all they could to save man shot by police
BURNABY, B.C. – Paramedics and a trauma doctor who fought to save Angus Mitchell in May 2012 after he was shot by police say they knew the 26-year-old had no chance of surviving multiple gunshot wounds.
Paramedic John Chambers told a coroner’s inquest that when he arrived at the scene in Maple Ridge, B.C., he was told by another paramedic that Mitchell was not breathing and had no pulse.
The responders kept trying to resuscitate Mitchell even as he was transported by helicopter to a New Westminster hospital about 30 kilometres away.
Trauma doctor Neil Barclay says he and his team did all they could to revive Mitchell, but the man’s heart had stopped and the doctor pronounced him dead.
Mitchell was surrounded and shot multiple times by police shortly after they warned the public that he was suspected of in three shootings, including two murders in Burnaby.
The coroner’s inquest has heard that Mitchell had suffered from mental-health and substance-abuse issues.
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