Lead Investigator In St. Arnaud Case Takes The Stand

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The Coroner’s Inquest into the December 18th 2004  shooting death of Kevin St. Arnaud continued this morning in Vanderhoof with testimony from Staff Sergeant Glen Krebbs, the lead investigator in the police shooting.

Counsel for the family, Cameron Ward,  asked Krebbs how he had weighed the evidence before submitting a report  that  recommmended no charges be laid?  Krebbs testified that of the evidence collected  "You have to weigh eye witness accounts in an investigation, and I rely more heavily on physical evidence."  

Staff Sergeant Krebbs had testified that forensics don’t lie. 

Ward told the inquest  Constable Sherametta`s statement of events was, "Contradictory to those of the pathologist, the person who analyzed the blood, the forensic expert, the  three independent witnesses who came forward the following day and his fellow officer."  Ward then asked  "Having said that, would it be fair to say Staff Sergeant Krebbs that he, (Sheremetta ) was in jeopardy?

Krebbs replied  "Yes".

Ward pointed out the only person who had something to gain from Sherametta’s statement, was, Sherametta.

Cameron Ward attempted to have entered  as evidence Staff Sergeant Krebb’s notebook of the events as they transpired, but was unable to get those notes entered under the argument the notebook contained privileged information  between Krebbs and his legal Counsel.

Earlier  this morning, the video tape of the  initial interview of Constable Ryan Sherametta conducted by then Corporal Jim MacLellan was played to the Jury.   In that interview, Sheremetta  demonstrates how he fired his gun, his arms  pointing upward, saying St. Arnaud was less than 5 feet away from him. 

St. Arnaud died after being shot three times in a soccerfield in Vanderhoof in the early hours of December 19th, 2004.  He was a suspect in a break and enter at a Vanderhoof drug store.

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