The 911 call made by a bedroom partner when the student of the University of Victoria, Sidney McIntyre-Starko, was suffering a fatal overdose of fentanyl was played for the jury on day two of the Forensic investigation for the death of the 18-year-old.
Known only as “Student 2”, the bedroom partner, McIntyre-Starko and another woman, “Student 3”, had snorted what was later determined that it was a mixture of cocaine and fentanyl in a bathroom of the student of Sir Arthur Currie of Uvic.
A few minutes away from ingesting drugs, McIntyre-Starko and Student 3 fainted, began to have seizures and began to wear blue, according to the testimony.
Student 2 names and student 3 are under a publication prohibition.
The 911 call runs almost 16 minutes. The confusion about the name and location of the bedroom occupies the first 3 ½ minutes of the recording, at which time the 911 operator asks for the first time: “Do you tell me exactly what happened?”
“I am not sure,” replies the student 2. “Two of my friends have begun to seize … they entered and fainted on the floor.” She doesn’t tell the 911 operator that they had just taken drugs.
Student 2 assures the 911 operator that his two unconscious friends are breathing. The 911 operator then asks if any of the victims is pregnant, diabetic, epileptic or has a history of stroke or brain tumor, which the student 2, “no” responds.
Approximately seven minutes after the call, operator 911 says he is sending paramedics as soon as possible. Eight and a half minutes later, a security officer of the male campus replaces student 2 on the line. In the 11 -minute brand, the 911 operator asks the campus security officer: “[Is there a] Possibility of having taken something? “
“Unknown,” he replies.
‘High probability that have taken something’
Two minutes later, 13 minutes after the call, the security officer of the Campus tells the 911 operator: “There is a high probability of having taken something, according to one of the residents here.”
At that time, the 911 operator instructs the security officer to “manage each one.”
After confirming that each patient received a dose of NARDCAN, the campus security officer tells the 911 operator: “I don’t think he is receiving a pulse in this case.”
Then a male voice is heard saying: “Sidney, can you hear me? Sidney, wakes up!”
The call ends a few moments later, when the first to respond to the fire department arrives at the scene.
On Monday, student 2 declared that she did not remember much about the call to 911 or her interactions with campus security officers.
“I remember being trying to say [the 911 operator] where we were located. I don’t remember [the 911 operator] asking if we had taken something. I remember telling him that they were taking and turning blue, “he said.
The student 2 testified that he did not immediately told the 911 operator or the security officers of the campus that she and her friends had taken drugs because she was afraid to get into trouble.
“I should have said something. ‘
“I didn’t realize that I was going to end like this,” he said. “I realize that I should have said something … Honestly, I could not say with certainty what I was thinking at that time.”
Student 3 was revived by Narcan, but she and student 2 refused to go to the hospital when McIntyre-Starko was transported. They called an ambulance later that night.
Student 3 was excused from testifying in research due to medical reasons. Instead, a statement that prepared was read in the registry.
The Forensic Court also listened to the testimony on Tuesday of the witnesses of UVIC students Amirah Ali and Kyra Herriott who has questioned some of the information contained in a report that the university commissioned the death of McIntyre-Starko.
Written by former Abbotsford Police Chief, Bob Rich, the report establishes that UVIC security officers had to go through an “estimated 20 or 30 spectators” in the hall to reach unconscious victims.
“These spectators continued with Elying, pressing and making noise … The students in the hall were not silent. That interference and noise made it more difficult to hear if Sidney breathed,” says the report.
But Ali and Herriott, who tried to help the victims, said there was no crowd in the hall.
“Seeing that there were no spectators, they were not going around,” Ali told the court.
The research continues on Wednesday and is scheduled to arrive at the end of next week.
Forensic investigations do not assign guilt, but they are public consultations that aim to determine the circumstances surrounding a death.
At the end of the testimony, the Forensic Jury of five people will make non -binding recommendations to avoid similar deaths in the future.
