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Jordan Collins

Hospital security kill brain cancer patient after mistaking pink cigarette lighter for a gun

A cancer patient at the Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon, Canada, has died after an altercation with security. Trevor Dubois, 36, reportedly got into a physical altercation when security mistook a pink and yellow cigarette lighter for a firearm.

Dubois, a First Nations member and indigenous to Canada, was in hospital receiving treatment for a tumor in his brain but died on Friday January 9. 

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