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How could a parked car with a dead person inside, just steps from the emergency room entrance of a Toronto hospital, go unnoticed for so long?
Those are the answers the family of Thomas Choy wants after the 41-year-old man’s body was found in the back seat of a vehicle parked outside the Humber River Hospital ER last Wednesday.
Lang Choy, the dead man’s sister, says investigators told her that the vehicle in which her brother was found was captured on security video arriving at the hospital sometime on Sunday, December 7.
The driver is seen exiting the car and entering the hospital, but his brother is never seen exiting the vehicle, which remained parked at the same location for three full days before he was found dead inside.
Lang Choy says the car belonged to his second elder brother, but he says he was not the driver of the vehicle that day. That driver remains unidentified.
Another mystery, she says, is why no one noticed the vehicle parked with her brother in it for three days, despite it being in an obvious location.
Choy commented that the vehicle did not even have a ticket.
“It doesn’t make any sense,” the grieving sibling told CityNews. “How can a hospital leave a car for three whole days, not a single parking ticket, not a single person bothered to check or ask the owner of the car to remove it.” [to move it],
“What if he was alive when we got there?” He added.
Thomas Choy. Photo provided by family.
CityNews contacted Humber River Health and raised several questions regarding their safety patrols and parking policies. He declined to answer and directed those questions to the police.
Humber River Health responded, “This is a police matter, and we are unable to provide any further comment.” “Please direct any inquiries to the appropriate law enforcement authorities.”
Lang Choy said Thomas’s last contact with his family was about a week before he arrived at the hospital and everything seemed normal with him.
“He’s a good brother, he was always there whenever you needed him. He had a big heart,” she said.
She is now awaiting the results of an autopsy to determine whether he was dead before he reached the hospital, or whether he died at some point while lying in the parked car over the next several days.
He said, “It doesn’t make any sense. It doesn’t make any sense.” “He might be calling for help, who knows.”
The coroner’s office confirmed it was investigating the death, but no further details could be released due to the ongoing police investigation.
Meanwhile, Toronto police would only confirm that on December 10, officers responded to an unknown trouble call in the Wilson Avenue and Keele Street area at approximately 6:36 p.m.
A police spokesperson said, “One deceased person was inside a vehicle and the circumstances of the death are still being investigated.” “If it turns out to be a criminal matter, we will release more information.”