MELFORT, Sask. – A man will spend four years behind bars after pleading guilty to shooting at Saskatchewan RCMP officers in 2011.
Davis Whitehead, 21, from the Red Earth First Nation, made the admission in a Melfort, Sask. courtroom on Thursday.
Whitehead admitted to shooting at officers in a police truck as they approached him while he was walking down a road with three other men early in the morning of Oct. 4, 2011.
The shot shattered the windshield but the officers were not hit.
Officers returned fire and the four fled to a nearby house, leading to a stand-off that lasted for over 11 hours before the four men surrendered to police.
The two officers were responding to complaints of shots being fired on the First Nation.
With files from The Canadian Press
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