Inquest into death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet hears and sees woman’s final moments

By Paola Loriggio Regis Korchinski-Paquet expressed difficulty breathing and reported losing control in a fight with her family in a series of agitated 911 calls shortly before she fell to her death from a 24th-floor balcony while police were inside her home, a coroner’s inquest heard Thursday. Some of the 29-year-old Afro-Indigenous woman’s final moments were laid bare as jurors watched a compilation video that overlaid the recordings of five 911 calls and two police microphones with CCTV footage from the hallway outside her home and video from a police cruiser on May 27, 2020. The calls made to 911 over roughly half an hour late that afternoon, including three by Korchinski-Paquet herself, brought six police officers and two paramedics to the west Toronto building in short succession. Korchinski-Paquet’s mother,…

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