Christo­pher Sama­roo, the fa­ther of po­lice shoot­ing vic­tim Joshua Sama­roo, was said to “be okay and in good spir­its” last evening, de­spite be­ing in po­lice cus­tody for over 24 hours.

At­tor­ney Aaron Lewis con­firmed that Sama­roo was tak­en to the Wood­brook Po­lice Sta­tion on Mon­day night and was moved to the Bel­mont Po­lice Sta­tion last evening.

Con­firm­ing that Sama­roo’s fam­i­ly was al­lowed to drop off food, med­ica­tion and cloth­ing for him yes­ter­day, Lewis re­vealed Sama­roo was a heart pa­tient who re­quired a dai­ly reg­i­men of med­ica­tions. He said the po­lice had been un­der­stand­ing in how they were deal­ing with Sama­roo.