Inquiry head appoints two lawyers to commission looking into Dunphy shooting

Sep 30, 2016 | 2:15 PM

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Two lawyers based in Newfoundland and Labrador have been appointed to an inquiry looking into the death of a man who was shot by police on Easter Sunday 2015.

Sandra Chaytor and Kate O’Brien were named as co-counsel to the commission examining the death of Don Dunphy at his home in Mitchell’s Brook, about 80 kilometres southwest of St. John’s.

Justice Leo Barry is leading the probe, and is expected to produce a report by July 1, 2017.

Dunphy was shot by a member of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary who served on then-premier Paul Davis’s security detail.