As Toronto teen lay dying, witness says health centre ignored cries for help [Video]

Moments after he was shot in Toronto’s Weston neighbourhood Saturday night, a teenage boy lay bleeding out in front of a local health-care centre — and one witness says her repeated cries for help at the facility’s front door were ignored. 

Now, Dacota Carriere says she is speaking out to draw attention both to the lack of assistance the teen — identified by police Wednesday evening as Jakhai Jack — received at West Park Healthcare Centre, and to join other witnesses in lamenting long 911 wait times that night as the life slipped from the 15-year-old’s body.

“The boy was fighting up until his last moments,” Carriere told CBC News Wednesday.

“I truly believe if first responders had come immediately when they were needed, or he got the attention he needed right away, I truly believe he would have survived with the amount of fight he had in him.”

Carriere was at the health-care centre at 170 Emmett Ave. Saturday …