Jordan Wabasse’s death might have been murder, a witness said on Wednesday at an inquest looking into the deaths of seven First Nations students living in Thunder Bay.
Riley Freeman that he was later told by a friend that Wabasse, a Grade 9 student at the time of his death, had gotten into a fight before he disappeared.
“He told me it resulted in pushing Jordan off the Mission Bridge or the MacKenzie Street Bridge.
Asked if he believed his friend’s story, Freeman said he did.
“Yes, I do believe him,” the teenager said.
“He was serious about it and he seemed shaken up and he’s always been getting into fights and things like that. I believed him at the time.”
Police dive teams recovered the boy’s body from the Kaministiquia River in May 2011. The Webequie First Nation teen vanished after getting off a bus in Thunder Bay on Feb. 7, 2011, just a block from where he was staying.
His death was not considered foul play at the time.
