No date has been set for a Coroner’s inquest into the mysterious death of Tyronne “TJ” Saunders, a young man who died mysteriously while in police custody last June.
Tyronne’s mother, Joann McKenzie, said it seems other cases are getting top priority.
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.
Coroner Linda Virgill visited CDU and saw the body before it was taken to the hospital.
A week after his death, a coroner’s 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’s inquest.
In a Tribune article she was quoted: “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.”
