A sentencing hearing begins on Jan. 12 for a man who ran over and killed a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer in Saskatchewan.
Alphonse Stanley Traverse pleaded guilty last year to manslaughter in the death of Constable Shelby Patton.
He also pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a motor vehicle.
Const. Patton, who was 26, had pulled over a suspected stolen truck in the town of Wolseley, east of Regina, in 2021.
According to testimony in court, the officer asked Mr. Traverse to step out of the truck and, when Mr. Traverse started the vehicle to drive off, Const. Patton stepped on the running board and reached for the keys.
Const. Patton fell when the truck jerked and was run over by a rear tire.
An agreed statement of facts said Mr. Traverse had been on warrant status for various offences.
He and a woman decided to drive from Winnipeg to play Video Lottery Terminals (VLTs) in Saskatchewan, as bars in Manitoba were still closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. When their truck broke down, they stole another near Pipestone, Man.
Mr. Traverse and the woman had also been using crystal meth, said the document.
