Prince George, B.C. – The Jury  at the Coroner’s inquest into the  death of Greg Matters will retire this morning  to begin deliberations and  craft its recommendations.

Presiding Coroner Chico  Newell will deliver instructions to the jury this morning,  and the  written submissions for  the jury to consider  as possible recommendations.

The jury is to determine  classification of death  of Gregory Matters,    deciding  whether  his death on September 10th, 2012 was:

• Natural
• Accidental
• Suicide
• Homicide
• Undetermined

It is important to note that in the case of death classification, “homicide”  indicates the death  was as a result  of another’s  actions, but does not, in any way, infer  intent.

The jury will also  define the time of death and location.

From there,  the jury can  make any number of recommendations it  believes may  be helpful  in preventing  a similar tragedy in the future.

Yesterday, testimony wrapped up with the Jury hearing from  the Veterans Transition Network  about  possible  recommendations that  could  offer support or assistance to  those  veterans who  suffer from  Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.  Matters  was  one of those veterans.

The jury also heard testimony from an Independent Investigations Officer about  some of the evidence,  Rob Stutt testified  Gregory Matters’ fingerprints were not  found on the hatchet he was said to have been threatening  officers with.   He also testified that  although no evidence was found to say the hatchet was in  Matters’ hand,   there was also no evidence to suggest it wasn’t.