{"id":32630,"date":"2013-03-06T22:46:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T03:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=32630"},"modified":"2013-03-06T23:28:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T04:28:38","slug":"still-no-inquest-into-police-custody-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/03\/still-no-inquest-into-police-custody-death","title":{"rendered":"No Inquest Into June 2012 Police Custody Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32631\" title=\"tyronne-saunders-mother-and-son\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tyronne-saunders-mother-and-son.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tyronne-saunders-mother-and-son.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tyronne-saunders-mother-and-son-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>No date has been set for a Coroner&#8217;s inquest into the mysterious death of Tyronne \u201cTJ\u201d Saunders, a young man who died mysteriously while in police custody last June.<\/p>\n<p>Tyronne&#8217;s mother, Joann McKenzie, said it seems other cases are getting top priority.<\/p>\n<p>Saunders was arrested on June 7 near Bamboo Shack on Baillou Hill Road in connection with murder. The following day he was found unresponsive in his cell.<\/p>\n<p>Coroner Linda Virgill visited CDU and saw the body before it was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>A week after his death, a coroner\u2019s report indicated that Saunders died of cardiac arrest but his mother does not believe it is true. She said she wants a date for Coroner&#8217;s inquest.<\/p>\n<p>In a Tribune article she was quoted: &#8220;Now these other two boys are dead. I feel for their mothers. I understand their pain, but how did they get a date so quickly and what about my son, he deserves justice as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No date has been set for a Coroner&#8217;s inquest into the mysterious death of Tyronne \u201cTJ\u201d Saunders, a young man who died mysteriously while in police custody last June. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-32630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}