CALGARY — A fatality inquiry judge has cleared police, transit security officers and paramedics of any wrongdoing in the death of a homeless man in a Calgary drunk tank.
Woodrow James Threesuns was picked up after he was found sleeping at a light-rail transit station one night in June 2007.
The inquiry was told police officers checked his cell every 10 minutes before the 41-year-old man was found unresponsive the following morning.
An autopsy found that long-term alcohol abuse had toxic effects on Threesuns’ heart, and that there would have been no outward signs of pending or imminent death.
Provincial court Judge Catherine Skeen concluded that Threesuns died in his sleep of chronic ethanol abuse.
Her inquiry report did not include any recommendations on how to prevent similar deaths.