LA RONGE – The case against four people charged in connection to an incident where RCMP officers were shot at in La Ronge last year is making its way through the court system.
The shooting had prompted a Saskatchewan emergency alert, a dangerous persons alert, and lockdown for the communities of La Ronge, Air Ronge, and Lac La Ronge June 19, 2022. Terrance Arnold Daigenault, 29, Nikeyta Bradfield, 24, Celine Charles, 22, and Allan Sanderson, 36, were tracked and arrested by police over several weeks.
RCMP say that at about 11:30 a.m. on June 19, 2022, officers were conducting patrols when they noticed a black car drive past them at a high rate of speed on Far Reserve Road. Police activated their emergency equipment to initiate a traffic stop but the driver refused to stop. Police followed the vehicle and saw it turn into a driveway at a home on the 100 block of far Reserve Road.
The male driver fled on foot and an officer pursued him on foot. A second RCMP officer was outside of the police truck when a second man got out of the car with a firearm and started shooting at an officer standing by a police truck. Bullets struck the windshield and the police vehicle’s radiator. The two RCMP officers moved to a safe location and back up officers from the La Ronge RCMP detachment arrived. No RCMP officers were injured during this incident and no other injuries have been reported to police.
Police say that a gathering was occurring at the home where the black car had parked and multiple people exited the home. They were subsequently arrested, along with a man and a woman police had determined were in the black car but had fled inside the house.
Someone flew a drone over the police officers while the incident was unfolding and officers used a loud hailer and on the emergency alert telling the person operating the drone to stop.
RCMP arrested 17 people who came out of the house, 15 which were released without charges.
Three days later, Bradfield and Daigenault were arrested in Saskatoon. She was charged with two counts of assisting and knowing that Daigenault had attempted to murder an RCMP officer while using a firearm. She was also charged with helping him escape.
Sanderson was arrested a month later after police found him hiding under a blanket in the back seat of a vehicle at a business on Highway 2 in La Ronge. In December, following a joint submission by the Crown and defence, Sanderson was sentenced to two years in prison.
On Aug. 11, 2022, Celine Charles was arrested in Air Ronge.
Bradfield and Daigenault, who also goes by Terrance Kenny, are back in La Ronge court later this month. Daigenault has been denied bail.
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations worked with the RCMP for a peaceful resolution to the shooting incident when police were searching for Sanderson, Daigenault and Bradfield. The FSIN pleaded with the three to turn themselves in.
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