Booze and Bullets

News flash!

A scene of death and destruction in the southern prairies last night.

Police were in hot pursuit of a vehicle suspected of transporting illegal liquor when it veered off the road and rolled into an open pasture.

As police turned spotlights onto the overturned car gunfire erupted.  Officers returned multiple rounds in defense.

The young officer behind the wheel of the police cruiser, acting in the heat of the moment, buried the accelerator to the floorboards and headed straight towards the flashes of gunfire.

In moments he crashed into the side of the suspect's vehicle.  Gunfire ceased and the one remaining spotlight on the passenger's side of the police car lit the scene.  Both suspects had been crushed in the impact and the young officer was dead behind the wheel.  He left behind a wife of two years and a nine month old baby.

A broken quart bottle of moonshine was found at the scene.  The officer in charge was promoted to head of all illegal liquor and drug activities in the southern prairies. 

Eighteen months to the day of the shootout the officer in charge was shot dead while walking to the corner store.  There were no witnesses to the shooting.  

The parents of the boys killed in the shootout live a quiet contented life on their small farm near the border. 

More photos of the scene below.

Photographed near Grasslands National Park in Saskatchewan on November 19, 2021.