B.C. coroner reopens investigation into young woman's death after family calls for inquest

Michelle Ghoussoub · CBC News

· Posted: May 06, 2025 7:09 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

B.C.'s main coroner has ordered the probe into a young Indigenous woman's decease beryllium reopened, a time aft the household publically called for an inquest.

Tatyanna Harrison, 20, was recovered dormant connected a docked yacht successful Richmond successful May 2022. Her mother, Natasha Harrison, was told criminality was not suspected successful her daughter's case, and that her origin of decease was fentanyl toxicity. The coroner's study aboriginal said her origin of decease was sepsis. 

On Monday, groups including Justice for Girls and the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs announced that an autarkic forensic pathologist reappraisal was disputing the B.C. Coroners Service's findings successful transportation with the case. 

Dr. Jatinder Baidwan, British Columbia's main coroner, said successful a statement, "As a parent, I cannot fathom the trauma and grief that the Harrison household has experienced implicit the past 3 years. The symptom of losing a kid is unimaginable, and the concerns the Harrisons person expressed regarding the circumstances of Tatyanna's decease lone adhd to that pain."

"Pursuant to Section 18 of the Coroners Act, I americium directing a coroner's inquest to publically reappraisal the circumstances that led to her death."

Tatyanna Harrison is 1 of 3 high-profile deaths of young Indigenous radical that are present nether scrutiny. The families of Chelsea Poorman and Noelle O'Soup, who besides died successful the outpouring of 2022, are besides asking for an inquest into their deaths.

Baidwan wrote "the investigations into the deaths of Chelsea Poorman and Noelle O'Soup stay open. Determinations astir whether to proceed to an inquest with those deaths volition beryllium made astatine a aboriginal date, and we volition stay successful connection with the Poorman and O'Soup families passim the process."