Tuesday, June 22, 2010

SIU investigates death at Regional Health Center

The Ontario Special Investigations Unit has been called in to investigate a fatality involving a 41-year-old man from North Spirit Lake First Nation.  The SIU says the man was picked up by the OPP from the Red Lake Detachment last Monday.  Later in the day he had to be taken to the hospital in Red Lake and then was transferred to the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre.  Yesterday, the man died.  The SIU says 4 of its investigators are being sent to Red Lake to look into the incident.