Verdict expected in trial of 2 former Hamilton medics accused in teen's death

An Ontario Superior Court judge is expected to render his verdict today in the trial of two former Hamilton paramedics accused of not properly caring for a teenager who was shot and died.

Steven Snively, 55, and Christopher Marchant, 32, have been charged with failing to provide Yosif Al-Hasnawi the necessaries of life. 

Al-Hasnawi, 19, was in Hamilton’s lower city on the night of Dec. 2, 2017, when he was shot in the abdomen. 

The court heard the paramedics believed the teen had been shot with a BB or pellet gun. They were wrong. Al-Hasnawi was shot with a .22-calibre handgun, and the hollow-point bullet