By paNOW

‘I’m just really hurt:’ P.A. mother upset after sentencing hearing

Mar 20, 2018 | 3:00 PM

Shirley Smith swore aloud as she stormed out of a Prince Albert courtroom Tuesday morning, just minutes after the man who shot her son was sentenced.

Speaking to paNOW outside Prince Albert Provincial Court, Smith said the four year and three month sentence given to Andrew Miles Umpherville was not right.

“Taylor doesn’t go nowhere anymore,” Smith said about her son. “He has bad dreams all the time.”

The shooting incident happened in Prince Albert during September of 2016. According to the Crown Taylor Lariviere, 24, was shot outside a home in the 800-block of Second St. E. after an argument arising from an alleged drug deal. Lariviere, the Crown said, was treated in hospital for a gunshot wound to the left side of his upper body.

Smith said the gunshot from a sawed-off shotgun left her son with a wound the size of a grapefruit. Smith said she has nightmares of what could have happened had the shot been aimed two inches to the right, and was upset the sentence was not longer.

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“It wasn’t a little hole in his back, it was like hamburger,” she said. “His little girl could have grown up without a dad, or a paralyzed dad. This is just so wrong.”

Umpherville was arrested the day of the incident, and has been in custody ever since. He now has roughly two years remaining on his sentence, with credit for the time he has already served. The court heard Umpherville has struggled with addictions for almost six years, and was heavily intoxicated the day of the incident.

“I hope you learned your lesson,” Judge Marty Irwin told Umpherville.

Prior to sentencing, Umpherville was asked by the judge to read a victim impact statement Smith had written. He did not say a word afterwards.

nigel.maxwell@jpbg.ca

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