Coroner re-classifies B.C. teenagers death as homicide [Video]

A Vancouver Island woman who refused to accept her daughter died of an accidental overdose is relieved the record has been set straight.

On Wednesday, Tracy Sims received a report from the B.C. Coroners Service, which re-classified the death of her daughter, Samantha Sims-Somerville, as a homicide. The service initially ruled she accidentally overdosed on GHB — a date rape drug.

“When I read the report, the emotions I felt are very difficult to explain,” Sims told CTV News. “It was shock, it was relief, it was anger. It was like I was being told the news all over again.”

Samantha died in 2021 after losing consciousness at a party in Victoria. She was 18.

Sims is convinced her daughter was drugged and sexually assaulted. For the past three and a half years, she’s been gathering evidence to prove it.

Some of the people at the party were convicted drug traffickers, …