Police got it wrong about how Mohawk men drowned: Coroner

APTN Investigates persuades coroner to change manner of deaths and open a new police investigation into how they drowned

Nearly a decade after Matty Fairman and Tyler Maracle drowned in the Bay of Quinte, Ontario’s chief coroner told their families police were wrong about how the fishermen’s boat sank. “The OPP theory of how the boat went down is not correct,” Dr. Dirk Huyer said last month during a private meeting on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, near where the men’s bodies and boat were found in 2015. As a result, OPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique requested that the Toronto Police Service reinvestigate the deaths of Fairman, 26, and Maracle, 21. The new investigation follows a two-year APTN Investigates probe th

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