VANCOUVER — A forensic toxicologist testifying at a public hearing into the 2015 police-involved death of Myles Gray says neither alcohol nor the psychedelics LSD or psilocybin were detected in him.
Dr. Aaron Shapiro with B.C.’s Provincial Toxicology Centre says the results showed a “good indication that cannabis was consumed” by Gray.
However Shapiro noted the timing of that consumption is unknown as that substance can remain in the body for weeks.
The hearing by the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner is looking into the actions of seven Vancouver police officers in Gray’s beating death.
All were cleared of misconduct in 2024 by a police discipline authority.
Gray’s family doctor, Dr. Christoffel Mentz-Serfontein, had earlier testified that his patient, who had bipolar disorder, had been injecting unprescribed testosterone.
A coroner’s inquest in 2023 heard that Gray was left with injuries, including a fractured eye socket, a crushed voice box and ruptured testicles.
The coroner’s jury ruled the death was a homicide. Coroner’s inquests do not find criminal fault and a finding of homicide means death due to injury intentionally inflicted by another person.
Police had originally been called to a complaint of a man who sprayed a woman with water from a garden hose.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 6, 2026.
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