First responder describes scene of fatal Alberta highway shooting - BERITAJA

Rob Anderson was moving for CN constabulary successful the summertime of 2024 erstwhile he came crossed Colin Hough, changeable and fatally wounded, lying successful the mediate of a agrarian roadworthy adjacent Calgary.

When thief arrived, Anderson rode pinch Hough successful the ambulance.

At the hospital, the dying man’s telephone rang.

The surface connected the telephone showed a family pinch 2 young kids.

Anderson didn’t prime up.

“I wanted to,” Anderson told tribunal Wednesday astatine the proceedings of Arthur Penner and Elijah Strawberry.

“(But) if I answered that call, I was beautiful assured that was his spouse, and I wasn’t consenting to present this benignant of news to her.”

Soon after, Hough died.

Penner, 37, and Strawberry, 29, person pleaded not blameworthy to second-degree execution and attempted murder.

The proceedings has heard Hough, 45, worked for Rocky View County erstwhile he was changeable connected Aug. 6, 2024.

Crown charismatic Photini Papadatou has told the assemblage that she intends to beryllium Hough was killed successful a bid of chain-reaction crimes that began pinch a stolen vehicle.

At first, she said, the accused men pulled disconnected to the broadside of a roadworthy to effort to switch retired a stolen motortruck for a powerfulness institution motortruck utilized by Matthew Andres.

Andres has testified that he was doing study activity by the roadworthy erstwhile 2 men drove up, changeable him successful the limb and demanded the keys to his vehicle.

Andres said he ran into a section to hide.

Court heard the 2 men past group occurrence to the first motortruck earlier trying to thrust disconnected successful the powerfulness institution vehicle, but they sewage stuck.

At that point, the Crown said, Hough drove up looking to possibly lend a hand.

He was changeable aggregate times earlier he staggered into the mediate of the roadworthy and collapsed, and the 2 men drove disconnected successful his truck.

Jurors were shown dashcam footage of a achromatic Dodge motortruck engulfed successful flames and a man lying successful the mediate of the road.

Anderson, a erstwhile paramedic who now useful for the RCMP, told tribunal he rushed to segment aft seeing a plume of achromatic smoke.

At first, he thought location had been a postulation accident.

“As I sewage overmuch person to the intersection, I observed a assemblage lying almost precisely successful the centre of that,” Anderson said.

“I judge I reached down and I said to him.

“It was evident to maine he was critically injured, and location wasn’t a batch I was going to beryllium capable to do.”

Anderson said RCMP officers arrived and they began CPR. He stayed pinch Hough until he died 3 hours later.