Nothing could be done to save Nona McEwan’s life, an ER physician at Royal Columbian Hospital testified Monday.
“No, unfortunately,” Dr. Pearlly Ng replied, asked if her condition was survivable.
Ng was called as a witness at a coroner’s inquest into the deaths of Randy Crosson, 48, and Nona McEwan, 45, both killed by police bullets during a March 29, 2019 hostage-taking in the Whalley house McEwan rented.
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