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305 show mijiiii iliffiih iliinii lliiii in ljiiii f 7469 1 race questions allowed by kathleen griffin staff writer the issue of racism will be explored at the inquest into the shooting death of teen faraz suleman but in a veiy limited way coroner dr william lucas ruled yesterday lawyer paul copeland acting for sulemans mother shaheen kamadia prompted the ruling after arguing that unless the issue was discussed no one would know for sure whether racism was a factor in sulemans death the markham teen was shot by a police officer during a sting he was wanted in connection to two armed carjackings if at some point the issue of race comes out there would be no way to explore it unless i ask these questions he said if im not allowed to explore it people will look at this inquest at the end of the day and say why not coroners counsel brad kelneck and three police lawyers argued against allowing race to be considered by the threewoman twoman jury they insisted its not relevant fe the fact that various victims in the carjackings gave various descriptions of the attackers is not evi dence of potential racism kelneck said referring to the fact suleman was at different times described as nonwhite black and iranian there are no facts to believe police targeted a particular group lucas agreed i do not believe racism is relevant in this partic ular inquest based on the evidence heard thus far however i believe it would be fair to allow limited questions lucas ruled adding he considered kamadias concerns in his decision but he applied stringent parameters no per sonal questions will be allowed and officers may only testify to their own opinions not those of other officers or of the force in general if it does become apparent race was a factor i will make a determination at that time as to the extent it will be explored lucas said the ruling was made during the testimony of sgtbisson ramdewar who was involved in trying to arrest suleman the night he was shot copeland asked him if when dealing with dif ferent ethnic groups he ever thought a particular group had a higher probability of carrying weapons faraz suleman no sir ramdewar replied copeland also asked him if had he known the weapons involved in the two armed car jackings were replica guns would he have changed his approach to the arrest that night no sir i would have gone out wellprepared to deal with weapons it wouldnt have made a difference to me if it was a large gun small gun or an air gun a gun is a gun to me ramdewar testified there was no real takedown plan in the early morning hours of june 19 1996 he said the robbery squad officers dets bob wiche and dan kierstead took control because they had more information on the carjackings markham officers were there to assist he said det wiche and kierstead were the ones appointed to do the surveillance on millies doughnut shop and if the jeep showed up we have radio communication and we would be advised what to do he said kamadia and family friend amyn mohamed had devised a plan where suleman already out of touch for a week and driving the stolen jeep would show up at millies between 3 and 330 am in the hopes of meeting a buyer for the vehicle ramdewar said he knew nothing about that plan but spotted the jeep as it sped past him on old kennedy road two undercover cars includ ing wiches followed closely behind chase details were transmitted over the radio and ramdewar followed but by the time he turned onto trafford crescent suleman was dead shot by wiche ramdewar said suleman was slumped back in the drivers seat and he couldnt detect a pulse the jeeps engine started with a screwdriver jammed into the ignition was still running and beginning to smoke wiche was holding another youth thepassen- ger when ramdewar approached wiche looked very dazed and very trauma tized i observed him limping i dont remember what leg it was he was in a state of shock i wasnt sure if he was hurt in any way he said hospital covering for nurses mother says ivjii i v kj by rick vanderlinde staff writer nurses who were assigned to monitor a 10-year- old thomhill girl the day she died at the hospital for sick children should have been fired her moth er says the hospital is refusing to admit any responsi bility at all theyve been trying to cover up their actions sharon shore said the fact that the nurs es are still working there at all is upsetting shores daughter lisa died in the pediatric hos pital oct 22 1998 after she was admitted to treat acute but nonlifethreatening leg pain a coroners inquest into the unexplained death was postponed until january after the hospital offered contradictory statements over the reliabili ty of a heart and respiratory monitor dr jim cairns admonished the hospital last week for springing surprise evidence on the inquest when a witness suggested a possible mal function may have caused a corometric monitor hot to sound an alarm after lisas heart stopped ifibut hospital lawyer patrick hawkins contradict- i edtiiat evidence saying the 200 corometric fnoni- tors still being used by the pediatric hospital are safe weve fully investigated the monitor and were satisfied with them hawkins said tuesday the inquest has been postponed so the coro ners office and the company that manufactures the monitors can do their own investigation but shore and her lawyer frank gomberg claim the monitor never sounded an alarm because nurses failed to attached one to lisa as they were ordered to by dr markus schily our position is she was never on a monitor usa shore period said shore who was sleeping in her daughters hos pital room when she died the inquest jury has heard that nurses failed to check doctors orders detailing how lisa should be monitored while she was being treated for pain schily placed the orders on an inhouse computer usinga handwritten chart to remind nurses to check the computer schily has testified he was shocked to later learn the computergenerated orders were never accessed the nurses who are being represented by the hospitals lawyers have yet to testify in an interview tuesday shore said the hospital failed to fully inform the family ab out lisals medical care despite repeated questions in a written response to the familys questions the hospital replied that doctors orders hadbeen placed in the system for lisa to be monitored but shore said the hospital never told them the orders remained unread in the computer system they didnt lie but they didnt fully disclose everything either she said but hawkins said both the hospital and the nurses have fijlly co-operated- with the coroners investigation into lisas death i think its inappropriate to suggest a coverup or anything of that sort hawkins said prior to the inquests opening the hospital made a financial settlement with the shores which specifies no liability