Northern Ontario First Nation seeks answers to teen’s death from probe of Thunder Bay police – CBC

Mike Morris of Kasabonika Lake hoping process sheds light on death of Jethro Anderson

Sep 27, 2017

A councillor from a fly-in First Nation in northwestern Ontario says he’s looking to the ongoing review of Thunder Bay police to hopefully shed some light on a tragedy from 17 years ago.

Mike Morris, from Kasabonika Lake First Nation, was in Thunder Bay on Monday, attending an open forum on police-Indigenous relations, which was part of the Ontario Independent Police Review Director’s probe into allegations of systemic racism in the local force.

The family of Jethro Anderson, as well as his home community of Kasabonika Lake, still want to know how the 15-year-old ended up in Thunder Bay’s Kaministiquia River in November, 2000. Jurors at the inquest into the deaths of seven First Nations students deemed his death undetermined.