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Hamilton paramedics charged in Good Samaritan death have case put over to October

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It's an unprecedented move in Canada. Two Hamilton, Ontario paramedics have been charged in the 2017 death of Yosif Al-Hasnawi, 19. As Sean O'Shea reports, the pair is being accused of not doing enough to save Al-Hasnawi – Aug 2, 2018

HAMILTON – The case of two Hamilton paramedics accused of failing to respond properly to the pleas of a dying teenager has been put over to early October.

A lawyer appeared this morning in a Hamilton court on behalf of Chris Marchant and Steve Snively, who are charged with failing to provide the necessaries of life in the death of Yosif Al-Hasnawi.

Al-Hasnawi was shot while trying to help an older man who was accosted outside his Hamilton mosque by two other men in December 2017.

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Witnesses alleged that the responding paramedics accused Al-Hasnawi of exaggerating the extent of his injuries, and that they took too long to treat him and take him to hospital.

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Police have described Al-Hasnawi as a brave young man who was trying to do the right thing.

Hamilton police charged one man with second-degree murder and another with accessory after the fact in relation to the shooting.

Niagara regional police were then called in to investigate the way paramedics handled the case.

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