When Andrea Morrice heard the loud bang of a bullet entering her SUV on Sept. 12, she thought at first that her car had blown a tire.
Morrice immediately pulled over to the side of Highway 39, just northwest of Weyburn, assuming something must have happened to her car. The noise had been so loud that she felt intense pain in her right ear and neck, like something had burst inside her ear, she said.
It was then that she looked to her right and asked her 44-year-old friend and passenger, Tanya Myers, if she was OK.
“When I looked and saw Tanya’s face, I could tell she was in a lot of pain and I right away just called 911,” she said.
While Morrice was on the phone with dispatch, awaiting the paramedics’ arrival, she said her friend leaned forward and quietly said, “It feels like I’ve been shot.”
“I think I told them on the phone, I said, ‘My friend said it feels like she'd been shot.’
“But obviously that's not what happened because that's ridiculous. We're three minutes from Weyburn.
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