Three and a fifty percent years after her child’s fatality, a Vancouver Island mom states she has actually obtained the recognition she has actually long waited for.
The B.C. Coroners Service has actually reclassified the 2021 fatality of 18-year-old Samantha Sims-Somerville from an unintentional overdose to a murder– an end result her mom, Tracy Sims, states she recognized to be the reality from the beginning.
On April 9, 2021, Sims-Somerville participated in a little celebration in a Victoria home after being brought there by an associate, according to the coroner’s record.
The last image of the 18-year-old was taken about 10 p.m., while she got on a bus en course to the celebration. In it, Sims states her child looks “bright and cheerful.”
Photos of Samantha Sims-Somerville are shown in her mama’s home. (CHEK News)
Hours later on, around 3 a.m., other individuals at the home called 911 after Sims-Somerville and a close friend were located less competent.
Both teenagers were transferred to a healthcare facility and placed under life assistance. The pal recouped, yet Sims-Somerville stayed less competent and passed away later on that night.
Although the teenager’s fatality was initially regarded an unintentional overdose, current searchings for from the B.C. Coroners Service expose that Sims-Somerville and her pal were deliberately provided a deadly dosage of an uncontrolled medicine called gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB)– additionally called the day rape medicine– incorporated with alcohol “without their knowledge.”
The principal coroner guided the examination be resumed on March 1, 2024, after brand-new details was provided. It had actually originally been ended onJan 6, 2023.
Tracy Sims shed her child, 18-year-old Samantha Sims-Somerville, in April 2021. Although her fatality was initially regarded an unintentional overdose, current searchings for expose that she was deliberately provided a deadly dosage of an uncontrolled medicine. (CBC)
“She didn’t have any drug history, any history of drug abuse,” Sims states. “Knowing my daughter and her character and trusting her decision-making based on how well I educated her on street smarts and drugs.”
Sims defines her child as a mild and type spirit, that had a deep love for pets and an enormous well of creative thinking, and that was an enthusiastic professional dancer, poet and vocalist.
“For anyone who is a parent, to sit and watch a child die and feel so helpless, it’s the most traumatizing.”
But Sims states she really did not simply rest and regret. Driven by her idea that her child’s fatality was no crash, she began doing her very own research study, excavating with text, speaking to people existing at the celebration and assembling her very own examination to show authorities.
“I mean, I had no choice. I was a desperate mother that needed answers for her child,” she states.
Disappointment with authorities examination
Sims has actually shared disappointment with the first handling of the situation, claiming authorities did not act on essential details.
She has actually submitted a grievance versus some Victoria Police Department policemans associated with her child’s situation, which the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner is presently examining.
Sims states she remembers her child as mild, kind and imaginative. She was a vocalist and poet, an enthusiastic professional dancer and a pet enthusiast. (Submitted by Tracy Sims)
In a declaration to CBC News, the authorities division stated it sent all appropriate details to Crown Counsel adhering to Sims’ independent searchings for and a choice was made to not go after costs.
“At this time, it is too early to determine whether there will be any further action on this file,” VicPD stated in a declaration.
Sims states she will certainly remain to defend justice up until she sees criminal costs laid versus those associated with her child’s fatality.
