Curtis Dagenais
Curtis Alfred Dagenais is a Canadian convicted of the fatally shooting two Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers and the attempted murder of another, on July 6, 2006.[1][2]
On Friday, July 7, 2006, two cars carrying the three officers were dispatched to a house in Spiritwood, Saskatchewan, in response to an alleged assault.[3][4] As police arrived, Dagenais left the residence in his truck and was followed by two police cars.
Dagenais led the police to Mildred, a town about 12 kilometres away from Spiritwood.[3][4] Shots were then exchanged between him and the police. Both officers in one car were shot in the head. Dagenais fled the scene and a large-scale manhunt was initiated.
On July 15, 2006, eight days after the shooting, two of the injured officers, Robin Cameron and Marc Bourdages, succumbed to their injuries.
Shortly before turning himself in to Police, on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 Dagenais sent a rambling five page letter to The Edmonton Sun.[5] While the letter acknowledged shooting the officers, it claimed it was their fault, because they wouldn't leave him alone. It also claimed they fired on him first.
Dagenais pled guilty, and was convicted in 2009.
During an interview on July 6, 2016, on the tenth anniversary of the shooting, Dagenais uncle, Herb Jaster, told reporter Dan Zakreski, "If I shot and killed him, I'd feel about as much remorse as if I shot a mangy coyote."[2] Zareski had interviewed Dagenais, in jail, in 2006.
References
- ↑ "Curtis Dagenais se rend" (in French). Radio Canada. 2006-07-18. https://ici-radio--canada-ca.translate.goog/nouvelle/314908/agents-grc-nouveau?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dan Zakreski (2016-07-06). "Interviewing Curtis Dagenais after the Spiritwood, Sask., shooting and manhunt: CBC reporter Dan Zakreski recalls speaking to Dagenais at correctional centre". CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/spiritwood-saskatchewan-shooting-anniversary-curtis-dagenais-1.3664500. Retrieved 2022-06-14. "Dagenais mailed a rambling, self-justifying five-page letter to the Edmonton Sun while he was on the run. That's when I knew that I'd have a chance to talk to him, if he survived getting caught."
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Saskatchewan police scale back manhunt". CBC News. 2006-07-13. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2006/07/13/uncle-dagenais.html.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Dagenais charged in RCMP killings". CBC News. 2006-07-19. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2006/07/19/dagenais-court.html.
- ↑ "Apparent letter from RCMP shooting suspect blames police". CBC News. 2006-07-18. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/apparent-letter-from-rcmp-shooting-suspect-blames-police-1.579367. Retrieved 2022-06-14. "It blames the RCMP for the July 7 shooting that killed two Saskatchewan Mounties and alleges that the police fired on the writer before he got out of his truck, CBC Radio News said."
