WEYBURN — Andrea Morris says she and her friend Tanya Myers had an amazing day together until what should have been a routine trip home turned into tragedy.
Morris, 46, said it all started at a psychic fair in Regina where they read cards, received Reiki treatments and bought crystals. They also shared fries.
“It was too good to be true,” Morris said in an interview at her home in Weyburn, Sask.
That all changed in mid-September around 8 p.m. when Morris was driving home to Weyburn on Highway 39 in her black SUV. Myers was sitting in the passenger seat.
Morris recalled hearing a bang so loud she felt it in her neck.
She looked at Myers, who seemed to be panicking. Myers leaned forward and grabbed her breast.
“I feel like I got shot,” Morris remembers Myers saying.
Morris called 911. She said she wasn't sure if her friend had actually been shot at that time.
Paramedics soon arrived and found Myers without a pulse.
When they pulled her from Morris' SUV, there was a mark on her back.
“Right around her left shoulder blade, probably the size of a dime, is just a tiny speck of blood,” Morris said.
Morris got out of the SUV, thinking there was something wrong with the seats. Standing on the side of the highway, she saw emergency doctors performing chest compressions on her friend.
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“I started to panic,” she said.
Morris walked around the car and saw a bullet hole in the back of her SUV. She saw another one in the middle passenger seat. And another one across the seat where Myers was sitting.
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Morris shouted to the paramedics, “I think she really got shot!”
Weyburn police and RCMP were called and Myers, 44, was pronounced dead shortly after.
It was pouring rain that night, Morris recalled. She remembers sitting in the police truck, looking at the storm clouds and lightning and wondering if it was all real.
“I had to ask the police station again to confirm that I was not dreaming and that the miracle happened after we got off the highway,” Morris said.
“I asked, 'Is she really dead?' And the answer was: “Yes.”
The shooting has left many residents of the city of 11,000 with questions about what happened that night.
Police reported that this happened on September 12 not far from the city limits, near a grain elevator. The stretch of highway is often busy, with farm equipment stores, gas stations, and restaurants serving residents of the area.
Installers say they are investigating.
They say the shooting may have been accidental and have asked for information from the public, including anyone who may have been hunting or target shooting that day.
Jaime Wawro said she was driving behind Morris that night. She remembered hearing two loud bangs.
She saw Morris stop but continued driving by because she said nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
The next day, Vavro said she had a flat tire, but didn't think much of it. She later learned of Myers' death and called the RCMP.
She said RCMP took her car and later reported she had a bullet in her tire.
“I hope they can solve this problem,” Wawro said in an interview. “Nobody just seems to know anything.”
RCMP said a second vehicle was damaged by gunfire that night.
Both Morris and Wavro say they don't remember seeing anything suspicious on the highway.
In mid-October, crews were working on road construction in the area of the shooting. There were only a few barnyards and abandoned fields – the remains of this year's harvest.
Morris said she has not been on the highway or driven since then. RCMP took her SUV as evidence, she added.
“The thought of getting behind the wheel right now… definitely scares me,” she said.
“I know the police are trying their best, but if there is no evidence, where does it come from?”
Morris described Myers as a homebody who loved her nine cats and family. She lived on a farm near the city with her mother.
Morris, who suffers from fibromyalgia, turned to Myers for natural pain relief. Morris is also a barber and has cut and styled Myers.
She said their day in Regina was the first time they had left the city together.
“We never took pictures. We were in the moment all day,” Morris said.
She said she walked her dog, took a bath and cried to cope. She also has some Myers crystals, a gift from her friend's mom.
“I keep them in my pockets. I feel like she's watching over me and doesn't make things worse.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 24, 2025.
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