Saskatoon·NewIn 2021, Roderick Sutherland came forward to police and said he knew what happened to Megan Gallagher. The video was played at his manslaughter trial on Tuesday.Recorded police interview with accused Roderick Sutherland played in court Kendall Latimer · CBC News · Posted: Oct 07, 2025 4:07 PM EDT | Last Updated: 23 minutes agoA file photo shows a poster in downtown Saskatoon seeking information about the disappearance of Megan Gallagher after she went missing. (Kendall Latimer/CBC)WARNING: This story contains distressing details.Roderick Sutherland sobbed to police officers as he revealed that he knew what happened to Megan Gallagher and that he had played a role. His tears were apparently prompted by fear for his own life. Sutherland gave a voluntary statement to Saskatoon police on Aug. 5, 2021, nearly one year after Gallagher disappeared. “There’s a green light out on me now. They’re trying to make me hush up about it,” Sutherland told officers. “Now everyone thinks I’m a snitch now, you know? … They’re gonna frickin’ kill me, man.”The video recording of the interview was played on Tuesday for the jury at Sutherland’s trial at Saskatoon Court of King’s Bench. Sutherland has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter, unlawful confinement and offering an indignity to human remains. Justice John Morrall is presiding over the trial. The Crown called retired Staff Sgt. Anthony Boensch as its first witness on Tuesday. He was the lead investigator on the Gallagher homicide investigation and conducted the interview with Sutherland. Sutherland ran a bike chop shop in his mother’s garage on Weldon Avenue and people often came and went from it, court heard. One day, Robert (Bobby) Thomas, Cheyann Peeteetuce and Summer Sky Henry showed up and said they were going to use the garage to ask a girl, who he didn’t know, some questions. He said the trio was associated with the Terror Squad. He said Gallagher arrived at the garage with the trio and that the mood was “buddy-buddy,” like a party, but at some point the night took a dark turn. Sutherland said he left the group in the garage and when he returned a couple of hours later, Gallagher was tied up on a chair. When he first saw her tied up, he said they were giving her drags off a cigarette and some food. She “didn’t look scared” then, but the situation became “worse and worse.” When he returned later, he said Gallagher was in distress and wanting out. He imitated her, making frantic, panicked gestures. Still, Sutherland left. He said he could hear her screams. When Sutherland returned, “she was already gone” and her body was covered in a blue tarp. “Do you know what their beef was there?” an officer asked Sutherland.”I don’t even know,” Sutherland said. “After that they left her there, and I didn’t know what to do. I was trying to get ahold of Bobby.”Thomas has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in connection with Gallagher’s death. Henry and Peeteetuce have pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Meghan Gallagher went missing in September 2020. In August 2021, Roderick Sutherland told police he knew what had happened to her, according to a video of his voluntary statement that was played in court on Tuesday. (Brian Gallagher/Facebook)During cross-examination, Boensch confirmed to defence lawyer Blaine Beaven that the police had a working theory that Gallagher was targeted because she had “loose associations” with some people who had previously targeted Thomas, who is associated with the Terror Squad. The jury heard Thomas was unlawfully confined, tied up, tortured, stabbed and burned at a home on Avenue G South roughly one month before Gallagher was killed. His attackers carved “IP” into his body — Indian Posse is another gang in Saskatoon. Sutherland didn’t speak about this during the police interview that was shown in court. Timeline emerges More details about what happened in the hours before Gallagher’s death emerged during Boensch’s testimony. According to an agreed statement of facts, Peeteetuce called Gallagher to buy drugs at 4:30 a.m. on Sept 20, 2020.At 4:57 a.m., Megan Gallagher asked a man to buy drugs from him so she could supply them to Peeteetuce. At 5:07 a.m., Gallagher sent a selfie of her and Henry to Henry via Facebook messenger. In the photo, Gallagher is smiling. Henry is wearing a bandana on her head and another on her neck. Boensch confirmed the photo was taken in Sutherland’s garage, where Gallagher was killed. During cross-examination, defence lawyer Beaven suggested the photo was taken shortly before Gallagher sent it. At 5:34 a.m., Gallagher took a cab from Weldon Avenue to a convenience store where she met a man, withdrew $243.14 from an ATM and then left in a cab. During cross-examination, Boensch confirmed to Beaven that at 6:07 a.m., Gallagher messaged Henry asking if she needed “anything from the Sev.” At 6:17 a.m., she got out of the cab on Weldon Avenue and then used her cellphone to call Peeteetuce, according to the agreed facts.Gallagher didn’t respond to messages or calls to her phone after that. The trial is expected to last two weeks.
Man accused in Megan Gallagher’s death told police he came forward because he feared he was next
