SaskatoonA five-day inquest, with 14 officers scheduled to testify, is set to begin this morning into the 2022 shooting death of Ronnie Glen Herman by Saskatoon police.Ronnie Glen Herman, 36, was shot after foot chase in Mayfair neighbourhood in 2022Dan Zakreski · CBC News · Posted: Jul 21, 2025 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours agoThe police rescue truck hours after the fatal shooting of Ronnie Glen Herman in 2022. (Dan Zakreski/CBC)Saskatoon police knew all about Ronnie Glen Herman when they began chasing him through yards in the city’s Mayfair neighbourhood late on a Thursday afternoon in October 2022.Nine months earlier, police shot the 36-year-old from La Loche, Sask., in the arm, when he rushed police outside a house on Avenue L South in Saskatoon armed with a machete and replica handgun.Two years earlier, in 2021, Herman was the subject of an RCMP alert in La Loche, just over 500 kilometres northwest of Saskatoon, wanted for assault, assault with a weapon, forcible confinement and failure to comply with probation.And, in 2009, when he was 22, Herman pleaded guilty to manslaughter for his role in the beating death of a teen in a parking lot in La Loche.Ronnie Glen Herman died in a police shooting on Oct. 27, 2022. (Submitted by Rona Clark Herman)On Monday, a coroner’s inquest at Court of King’s Bench will begin deconstructing the sequence of events that led to Herman’s fatal shooting by Saskatoon police.”The guns and gangs unit became aware that a 36-year-old male, who was wanted by La Loche RCMP, was in the 1300 block of Avenue E North and was armed with a gun,” police Chief Troy Cooper wrote in a statement the following day. “The male was in breach of release conditions and had removed his electronic monitoring device.”People living in the houses near where Herman died say dozens of plainclothes and uniformed police with guns drawn converged on a two-storey house across from the Mayfair elementary school around 5:45 p.m. on Oct. 27, 2022.Witnesses say police ran through yards and jumped fences and decks, squaring off with Herman both inside and outside the corner house. The neighbours heard shouting and the sound of multiple gunshots.Police said in a news release that they confronted a suspect in the home before police fatally shot him. No police or bystanders were hurt.The established neighbourhood was busy at the time of the shooting — parent-teacher interviews had just started at the school and kids were out in the playground. The inquest will feature 18 witnesses, including a paramedic, a registered nurse, a pathologist, two civilians and 14 police.Timothy Hawryluk will be the presiding coroner.ABOUT THE AUTHORDan Zakreski is a reporter for CBC Saskatoon.
Inquest begins into 2022 fatal police shooting of La Loche, Sask., man in Saskatoon
