THUNDER BAY — More than 12 years after Sherman Quisses was fatally stabbed at the Thunder Bay Correctional Centre, an inquest into the Neskantaga First Nation man’s death has been announced.
The inquest was announced by Dr. Kevin Miller, regional supervising coroner at the Thunder Bay office, on Friday.
Quisses, 35, died on June 4, 2012 at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre after being transferred from the correctional centre.
An inquest is mandatory under the Coroner’s Act and it will examine the circumstances of Quisses’s death.
The date and location of the inquest has not yet been announced.
Adam Capay had been in custody at the correctional centre when he was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Quisses.
Capay made national headlines in 2016 when it was reported he was in isolation in a Plexiglass cell with the lights on 24 hours a day.
In February 2019, a stay of proceedings was granted on the murder charge as a remedy for breaches of Capay’s rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom.
Capay’s lawyer had successfully argued the Lac Seul First Nation man’s rights were violated after spending more than 1,600 days in solitary confinement at the Thunder Bay District Jail and the Kenora District Jail.
The family of Sherman Quisses and Neskantaga First Nation expressed disappointment the individual allegedly responsible for his death would not stand trial and stated Quisses’s death had devastated the family and severely affected the community.
