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TORONTO — Staccato scenes play out in Jody McLennan’s mind on loop: her husband slumped in his chair, paramedics pumping his chest, his lifeless body splayed on their living room floor.
Only four hours earlier, McLennan and Oghenovo Avwunufe had been munching on chips and drinking beer before she fell asleep on the couch while he sat in front of the computer, working on a business project. Unbeknownst to McLennan, Avwunufe had snorted cocaine earlier with a friend.
He was still in the same chair when McLennan woke up at 6 a.m., she recalled in a recent interview.
“I thought he was sleeping, so I went over and shook him, and I knew when I shook him that he wasn’t alive,” she said.