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Ex-engineer found not guilty in Elliot Lake mall collapse case

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The Sault Ste. Marie Courthouse is pictured in this file photo. Michael Purvis/SooToday

2:53 p.m. update:

SooToday has been told family members of the mall collapse victims have left the building via another entrance.

Our livestream has ended. Watch for full coverage of today's decision to be posted.

Robert Wood left the building earlier without speaking to media.

2:14 p.m. original story:

A Superior Court judge has found a former Sault engineer not guilty in the Elliot Lake mall collapse.

Robert Wood, who owned and worked at the now-defunct Sault-based engineering firm M.R. Wright and Associates, was charged in 2014 with two counts of criminal negligence causing death and a single count of criminal negligence causing bodily harm.

The Algo Centre Mall's rooftop parking deck collapsed on June 23, 2012.

Wood conducted a structural condition inspection of the mall's leaking roof and parking deck on April 12, 2012.

He was found not-guilty of all three charges today.

Doloris Perrizzolo and Lucie Aylwin died and dozens of people were injured when the parking deck collapsed.

SooToday is at the courthouse, where family of the two people who died in the 2012 Algo Centre Mall collapse are expected to address media.


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