SASKATOON – A man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and impaired driving causing death after hitting and killing a Saskatchewan conservation officer south of Saskatoon in May 2013. Blaine Taypotat, 35, will return to court in early January for sentencing.
Justin Knackstedt, 23, and a colleague had stopped to help first responders with traffic control while they were dealing with a crash on Highway 11 on May 31, 2013.
RCMP got a call that an SUV was driving erratically toward the scene. When an officer approached the vehicle, the driver sped through the crash site and ran over Knackstedt, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
Taypotat continued driving until his car rolled into a ditch near the interchange of Highways 11 and 16.
Knackstedt was a lifelong hunter and fisherman and had been a conservation officer for three years at the time of his death.
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