A toxicologist with the B.C. Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) said a natural stimulant cited by Crown prosecutors as a potential cause of Myles Gray’s death following a violent struggle with police cannot be confirmed with certainty as having actually been in his bloodstream.
Aaron Shapiro told a coroner’s inquest Wednesday an initial toxicology screen found Gray might have had mitragynine, also known as kratom, in his system when he died after being beaten by Vancouver police officers in 2015, but another analysis in 2016 showed there was only a small quantity of the natural stimulant in his system, if any.
“There were some indications it was present,
