Ontario Provincial Police are reinvestigating the deaths of 13 Indigenous people between 2006 and 2019 in Thunder Bay.
OPP spokesperson Bill Dickson confirmed Tuesday the independent reinvestigations are ongoing and have been undertaken at the request of the province’s attorney general. The cases were previously investigated by the Thunder Bay Police Service (TBPS) and, in a report last year, were identified as being in need of being investigated again.
These new investigations have been assigned to OPP officers and are being led by a major case manager in the organization’s criminal investigations branch.
“Our intention is to take a victim-centred, trauma and culturally informed approach to
