‘You saved your life’: RCMP investigator told police officer in fatal shooting
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — The day after Const. Joe Smyth of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary fatally shot Don Dunphy, an RCMP investigator reassured him during questioning that he’d acted in self defence.
“You saved your life,” RCMP Cpl. Monty Henstridge told Smyth after confirming for him that a .22-calibre rifle found at Dunphy’s feet was loaded.
Henstridge makes the comment on a video of the police interview played Tuesday at a public inquiry into Dunphy’s death.
It came at the end of a day of questions about the objectivity and thoroughness of the probe, which was led by the Mounties because Dunphy was killed in RCMP jurisdiction.