Homicide police have been called in to investigate the death of an inmate in his cell at a B.C. jail this week.
Forty-four-year-old David William Brodrick was found in medical distress at North Fraser Pretrial Centre on Sunday night, according to police. Though corrections officers, paramedics and firefighters tried to revive the Vancouver man, he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is now trying to determine what happened in Brodrick’s cell before he died and BC Corrections is conducting a critical incident review.
“This death is a tragedy and our heartfelt condolences go out to this inmate's family and friends. BC Corrections takes the death of an inmate in custody very seriously,” corrections spokeswoman Marnie Mayhew said in a written release.
Brodrick had a lengthy criminal history, including convictions for theft, mischief, break and enter, drug trafficking, robbery, assaulting a peace officer and assault with a weapon.
