Bail hearing postponed again for man accused in fatal highway shooting in Sask.

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A Regina antheral made a 3rd tribunal quality connected Thursday day successful transportation with the shooting decease of a pistillate connected a Saskatchewan road successful September.

Chris Fahlman is charged with manslaughter, weapons charges successful Sept. 12 shooting decease of Tanya Myers

Katie Swyers · CBC News

· Posted: Nov 06, 2025 8:28 PM EST | Last Updated: November 7

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Chris Fahlman is charged with manslaughter successful the decease of Tanya Myers, who was changeable erstwhile she was the rider successful a conveyance connected Highway 39 adjacent Weyburn connected Sept. 12, 2025. (Chris Fahlman/Facebook)

A Regina antheral made a 3rd tribunal quality connected Thursday day successful transportation with the shooting decease of a pistillate connected a Saskatchewan road successful September.

Chris Fahlman, 42, was charged connected Nov. 1 with 1 number of manslaughter and 3 different weapons charges, including careless usage of a firearm, for the fatal shooting of Tanya Myers, 44, who was changeable portion riding arsenic a rider successful a conveyance connected Highway 39 adjacent Weyburn connected Sept. 12.

He appeared virtually successful tribunal Thursday, but has yet to participate a plea oregon person a bail hearing, aft his defence lawyer said Thursday she needs much clip to prepare.

In court, lawyer Sharon Fox said she received a "very little disclosure" Thursday morning, which "created much questions than answers."

"We are not successful a presumption to proceed astatine this time," she said. 

Fahlman is scheduled to adjacent look successful provincial tribunal successful Regina connected Friday afternoon, erstwhile the anticipation is to acceptable a bail proceeding for adjacent week, the justice presiding implicit Thursday's proceeding said.

Thursday’s tribunal quality was heavy attended, with each spot successful the courtroom occupied. Many drove from Weyburn to Regina, including friends and household members of Myers, hoping to perceive much details astir what happened successful the shooting.

Myers’s person Andrea Morrice, who was driving the SUV Myers was successful erstwhile she was shot, said the repeated postponements of Fahlman’s bail proceeding person been disappointing.

Morrice and Myers were driving backmost to Weyburn from Regina erstwhile the shooting happened. Making the travel to Regina present is difficult, said Morrice.

"I privation to cognize what happened that nighttime … however accidental it was oregon wasn't," said Morrice. "I conscionable request to cognize the facts."

Morrice said she volition be Fahlman’s bail proceeding "when it happens," but volition not marque the travel connected Friday.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Katie Swyers is simply a newsman with CBC Saskatchewan, based successful Regina. She is simply a 2021 Joan Donaldson Scholar and has antecedently worked for CBC Podcasts, CBC's Marketplace, CBC's web investigative unit, CBC Toronto, CBC Manitoba and arsenic a pursuit shaper for Canada Tonight connected CBC News Network. You tin scope her astatine [email protected].

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