Sask. man walks kilometre to highway after taking shotgun blast in rural robbery
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Josh Peterson knows gunshot wounds. He says he expected the worst when he showed up in the hospital emergency room to check on his 66-year-old dad.
Peterson is a veteran cop in Prince Albert, Sask., which is about 130 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon. On Oct. 24 he got news that his dad, Orlan, had survived a close-range shotgun blast in a robbery north of the city.
Josh raced to the hospital, running disaster scenarios in his head during a 10-minute drive "that seemed to take forever."
"It was terrifying, I was basically thinking about what the funeral's going to look like, how I'm going to tell my brother and sister," Josh said in an interview.
"Then getting to the hospital and into the emergency room was terrifying. But rounding the corner where I could see his face and he was still conscious, I was able to go in there and squeeze his hand, you know, and just say, 'keep fighting Dad.' And he was very happy to see me."
Orlan Peterson, grievously wounded in a robbery that triggered a provincewide RCMP dangerous persons alert, had walked a kilometre to a busy highway. A passerby pulled over and called 911.
"I've always said he's one of the toughest men I've ever met," Josh said.
"No quit."
Josh is a supervisor with the Prince Albert Police Service, with just over 18 years under his belt. On the morning of Oct. 24, he was resting up and prepping to change over to working the night shift.
Orlan is a senior site superintendent with RNF Ventures Ltd. in Prince Albert. He is a red seal journeyman carpenter with a wall of awards and 25 years on the job.
Josh said his dad told him in the hospital about what had happened that morning on Lempereur Road, north of Prince Albert. Josh met with CBC in a Prince Albert hotel room five days later, on Oct. 29.
"I can tell the story if you want," he said.
It's important, he added, because in the end the good outweighs the bad.
Josh said his dad got to the worksite, about 14 kilometres north of city, around 6:45 a.m. CST. He was driving a company Dodge Ram truck.
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