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More than three years after Myles Gray died in a confrontation with Vancouver police, his mother Margie Gray said she hopes justice will be served.

On Wednesday, a B.C. civilian police watchdog, the Independent Investigations Office, asked Crown counsel to consider laying charges in Gray’s death in a Burnaby backyard on Aug. 13, 2015.

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“It is my hope as well as Myles’s family and friends that this horrific crime against Myles leads to charges against the VPD officers … ” wrote Margie on the Justice for Myles Gray Facebook page.

Gray, a 33-year-old floral wholesaler from Sechelt, was making deliveries in Vancouver that day. Vancouver police received a complaint of a man spraying a woman with a garden hose in the 3600-block Southeast Marine Drive.

Gray was confronted by as many as six officers in the backyard of a house on Joffre Avenue in Burnaby, about 10 minutes away on foot. He became “agitated” when officers tried to arrest him, said VPD at the time. More officers arrived. Gray died in the ensuing confrontation.