A judge has sentenced a man who ran over and killed an RCMP officer in Saskatchewan to 18 years in prison.
Alphonse Stanley Traverse of Winnipeg pleaded guilty last year to manslaughter in the death of Const. Shelby Patton.
Patton, 26, had pulled over a suspected stolen truck in the town of Wolseley, east of Regina, in 2021.
Court heard the officer asked Traverse to step out of the truck and, when Traverse started the vehicle to drive off, Patton stepped on the running board and reached for the keys.
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