US EditionSchool staff checked on Samuel Brown throughout night before he died, inquest hears
- Overnight staff at W. Ross Macdonald School in Ontario were shocked to find a disabled teen unresponsive and not breathing after routine checks throughout the night. The teen, Samuel Brown, who was blind, deaf, and non-verbal, died that morning.
- Student support staff testified that they had been checking on Brown at half-hour intervals and noticed he had cold symptoms the evening before. Medical staff had given him Tylenol and cleared him to go back to bed after a slight fever.
- The school had no nurses or medical staff available overnight, and support staff were not informed of Brown's history of infection. The investigating coroner's report stated he died of natural causes, while an autopsy concluded he died of pneumonia.
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School staff checked on Samuel Brown throughout night before he died, inquest hears
Overnight staff at an Ontario school for blind children were shocked to find a disabled teen unresponsive on the morning of his death after routinely checking on him throughout the night, a coroner's inquest heard Wednesday.
School staff checked on Samuel Brown throughout night before he died, inquest hears
Overnight staff at an Ontario school for blind children were shocked to find a disabled teen unresponsive on the morning of his death after routinely checking on him throughout the night, a coroner's inquest has heard.
School staff checked on Samuel Brown throughout night before he died, inquest hears
Overnight staff at an Ontario school for blind children were shocked to find a disabled teen unresponsive on the morning of his death after routinely checking on him throughout the night, a coroner's inquest has heard.
School staff checked on Samuel Brown throughout night before he died, inquest hears
Overnight staff at an Ontario school for blind children were shocked to find a disabled teen unresponsive on the morning of his death after routinely checking on him throughout the night, a coroner's inquest has heard.
School staff checked on Samuel Brown throughout night before he died, inquest hears
Overnight staff at an Ontario school for blind children were shocked to find a disabled teen unresponsive on the morning of his death after routinely checking on him throughout the night, a coroner's inquest has heard.
School staff checked on Samuel Brown throughout night before he died, inquest hears
Overnight staff at an Ontario school for blind children were shocked to find a disabled teen unresponsive on the morning of his death after routinely checking on him throughout the night, a coroner's inquest has heard.
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