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All the unknowns leading up to a woman’s death in a fatal shooting on a highway outside Weyburn, is leaving residents unsettled.
“People are taken back by this,” said Weyburn Mayor Jeff Richards. “It’s a very unnerving experience, and this is a very tight-knit city, so it is impacting a lot of people.”
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The 44-year-old woman was a passenger in a Ford Explorer SUV that was travelling on Highway 39 northwest of Weyburn at around 8 p.m. on Friday when she was struck by a bullet fired from behind the moving vehicle.
The victim, a resident of Weyburn, died at the scene, and the RCMP said the early investigation indicated the shooting may have been “random in nature.”
RCMP said it would not reveal the names of the victim at this time.
There were no police vehicles near the scene on Highway 39, where RCMP say the shooting took place, on Monday. (Gillian Massie/980 CJME)
Highway 39 northwest of Weyburn, the scene of the shooting, was busy with traffic on Monday. While vehicles flew down the road, construction took place near the grain elevators and trains chugged by on the opposite side.
Richards said the shooting death has left the community of about 11,000 people in disbelief.
“Everybody wants to have answers to what happened, and we don’t know them,” he said. “That is unsettling.
“I think people are sad. I think people are angry, quite frankly, at what happened.”
Richards said gun violence is not a common issue in the city, calling the shooting an “isolated” incident.
He thanked the first responders, including EMS and police, who responded to the crime scene.
“It’s really just about us now coming together as a community to support one another and get through this (and) support the families and the friends that are impacted,” Richards said.
Reina Hammer, a Weyburn resident, said there’s no room for gun violence in her community.
“Everybody’s talking about it, everybody’s shocked,” she said. “You just can’t believe that would happen.”
With no arrests and no indication if the shooting was random or targeted, Hammer said she still feels unnerved by the incident.
“We thought we had a nice, quiet community, and something like that happens,” she said.
RCMP are continuing to investigate the shooting that took place on Friday night on Highway 39 near Weyburn. (Gillian Massie/980 CJME)
Donna Coker said she worries about the safety of people – like her son – who travel Highway 39 frequently.
“I wouldn’t want that to happen to him,” she said. “That’d be devastating.”
Coker said she hopes that police will make an arrest in the case soon.
RCMP said officers will be speaking to local businesses in the area on Monday, and asked anyone who has security footage of the area to get in touch with police.
Joshua Graham, the superintendent in charge of Saskatchewan RCMP Major Crimes, joined the Evan Bray Show and said the death is still being treated as suspicious.
