A post-mortem is scheduled Thursday in the case of the First Nations mother who died this week in Thunder Bay, Ont., after being hit by a trailer hitch thrown from a passing car. Barbara Kentner, 34, was struck in the abdomen by the metal hitch as she was walking home at night in a residential neighbourhood in January. Kakegamic said she'd also like to see charges against the two other people who were in the car from which the trailer hitch was thrown. Barbara Kentner's sister, Melissa Kentner, says this trailer hitch was thrown at Barbara from the window of a passing car as the two of them walked down a Thunder Bay street last January. Family members also believe what happened to Kentner was racially motivated and should be prosecuted as a hate crime.

Source: CBC News July 06, 2017 14:03 UTC