Family and relatives of Barry and Honey Sherman have decided to conduct their own investigation into the mysterious circumstances surrounding their deaths.Toronto lawyer Brian Greenspan told the Star on Wednesday that the family contacted him to be “a resource person” in the process.On Thursday, the Sherman’s only son, Jonathon tearfully told a large group of mourners at his parent’s funeral that he and his sisters had “congregated for two days waiting to hear any facts other than through Twitter and the unreliable news media.”“These past few days have been a shocking adjustment to our reality,” he said, surrounded on stage by bereaved family members.In making the decision to conduct a private investigation, the Sherman family joins a list of other families who have made the same decision after a loved one died in sudden in unexplained circumstances.“Everyone has a right to hire a private investigator,” said Mark Valois, a former Toronto police homicide officer who now serves as director of academic training at the Canadian Tactical Officers Association. “They may believe there are other issues they’ve suspected, other than what is found to be the investigative motive for the incident.”‘They hire a third-party to find differently,” said Valois.Toronto police spokesperson Mark Pugash told the Star Thursday that the service would not be commenting on the Sherman family’s plan to conduct a separate investigation.“They’ve done the only thing they could have done,” said Joanne MacIsaac, the sister of Michael MacIsaac, a 47-year-old man who was shot dead in Ajax by a Durham police officer in December 2013. The MacIsaac family believes he was in crisis after suffering an epileptic seizure.MacIsaac hired a private investigator four days after her brother was shot by police. They made the decision the day of the shooting, as they sat in the waiting room of th ...
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