An autopsy confirms Tuesday that the wife of an Edmonton-area Mountie died as a result of multiple gunshot wounds. Rajpinder Sehmbi was found inside her south Edmonton home in Jackson Heights on Saturday. The woman's husband, Tirth Sehmbi was arrested a few hours later at a different location.
An eight-year member of the RCMP, Tirth Sehmbi, 36, has been charged with his 29-year-old wife's second-degree murder. He has now been suspended with pay. Police say Sehmbi served as a canine handler and traffic services constable out of Stony Plain.
There is now suspicion surfacing about what Sehmbi may have been planning in the days leading up to the murder. A neighbour told media that Sehmbi approached him on Thursday and asked to use his holiday trailer for the weekend so that he could keep an eye on his own home.
Cara Levesque worked with 
Rajpinder at Starbucks for close to two years. Rajpinder had immigrated to Canada leaving her family behind in India. The couple had been married for almost ten years and had been sorting through some issues.The couple had two young boys and they are staying with family in Edmonton.
When the couple separated in 2004, Rajpinder went back to India for a year but her parents encouraged her to come back and try again, said the family member. But the couple argued constantly. The decision to move out was partly to give his parents peace, she said, and to see if they could better work out their problems on their own.
Sehmbi used to volunteer for Radio Punjab, a radio station which focuses on South Asian issues and music. He and an Edmonton police officer co-hosted a radio program. The program, spoken in Punjabi, informed newcomers about traffic law.
"By nature he was a very positive person," said 
Sehmbi's co-worker Jarnamil Basota. During the seven eight months I had spent with him doing radio programs I have never seen him angry."
Sehmbi remains in the Remand Centre. He has been segregated from other inmates.
He is scheduled to make another court appearance on August 12th.
