Inquest into death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet hears from police
SIU says no charges in death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet
A coroner’s inquest into the death of a Toronto woman who fell from a 24th-floor balcony while police were in her home is hearing from one of the officers called to the incident.
Const. Shane Beaudoin told the inquest into Regis Korchinski-Paquet’s death that he volunteered to serve as backup when dispatch put out a high-priority call for an assault involving knives on May 27, 2020.
He says he met an officer from a different division outside the building and the two of them went up together after a resident let them in.
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Beaudoin says there was a lot of information coming at them and it was hard to know who the primary aggressor was, and the fact that it was a family dispute made matters “more murky.”
He says he heard before arriving that Korchinski-Paquet had experienced seizures earlier in the day, but only learned about postictal delirium through the inquest.
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An agreed narrative read at the inquest last week said Korchinski-Paquet had a history of seizures from epilepsy and often experienced confusion, “physically and verbally abusive behaviour,” and temporary amnesia afterward.
A neurologist who did not treat her but examined her records testified that Korchinski-Paquet on several occasions showed symptoms in keeping with postictal delirium or postictal psychosis — both altered mental states that can follow seizures.
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