Community members say coroner’s inquest ignoring JSCN’s own response
Cindy Ghostkeeper-Whitehead knew something was wrong when she heard her friend’s voice on the phone on the morning of Sept. 4, 2022.
“She said bad things are happening. She said people are getting stabbed. She said, ‘My boy got stabbed,’ ” Ghostkeeper-Whitehead explained Tuesday at the coroner’s inquest into the stabbings that day, which left 11 people dead.
Ghostkeeper-Whitehead, a family wellness worker on the James Smith Cree Nation, said she got dressed and headed out immediately after that call. She said she still didn’t know the extent of what was happening, but she picked up her sister-in-law on the way into the village because she’d said she was home alone and scared.
“We came by the clinic and there was just police cars and the air ambulance and the ambulance,” said Ghostkeeper-Whitehead.