When Leon Clunis called Senior Superintendent Wayne Cameron at 12:35 p.m. on Tuesday to remind him that he would be discharged shortly from the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH), neither man would imagine that the wounded “warrior” would be leaving for the morgue.
Instead, she left a heartbroken widow, whisked away in anguish after the family had waited to be reunited with the wounded police superintendent after his near-three-week stay in hospital.
They were just waiting for medication for him to leave,” said Senior Superintendent Stephanie Lindsay, head of the police’s communication arm.
Brown said news of Clunis’ death was unexpected as he was upbeat about going home.
That view was affirmed by Sergeant Patrae Rowe, president of the Police Federation, who said that the force was overwhelmed with the trauma of the triple casualty from a single violent confrontation.
