SaskatchewanWhen Andrea Morrice heard a loud bang as she drove home to Weyburn on Sept. 12, she thought her car had blown a tire. Morrice immediately pulled over, and she noticed her passenger and friend Tanya Myers was in a lot of pain. A few moments later, Myers said, “It feels like I’ve been shot.”Andrea Morrice says she had an amazing day with Tanya Myers, until it came to a shocking endKatie Swyers · CBC News · Posted: Oct 09, 2025 5:39 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours agoAndrea Morrice holds a crystal that her friend and avid crystal collector Tanya Myers gave her. Morrice says carrying her friend’s crystals has helped comfort her after Myers died when she was shot while she was a passenger in Morrice’s vehicle. (Katie Swyers/ CBC)When Andrea Morrice heard the loud bang of a bullet entering her SUV on Sept. 12, she thought at first that her car had blown a tire. Morrice immediately pulled over to the side of Highway 39, just northwest of Weyburn, assuming something must have happened to her car. The noise had been so loud that she felt intense pain in her right ear and neck, like something had burst inside her ear, she said. It was then that she looked to her right and asked her 44-year-old friend and passenger, Tanya Myers, if she was OK. “When I looked and saw Tanya’s face, I could tell she was in a lot of pain and I right away just called 911,” she said. While Morrice was on the phone with dispatch, awaiting the paramedics’ arrival, she said her friend leaned forward and quietly said, “It feels like I’ve been shot.” “I think I told them on the phone, I said, ‘My friend said it feels like she’d been shot.’ “But obviously that’s not what happened because that’s ridiculous. We’re three minutes from Weyburn. Things like that don’t happen here,” Morrice said.Tanya Myers died after she was hit by a bullet that entered the vehicle she was travelling in on a highway near Weyburn. (Submitted by RCMP)The 911 dispatcher suggested that maybe an airbag had injured Myers. Morrice searched around the passenger seat and her friend’s legs, trying to find whatever might have hurt her. She found nothing. Morrice knew Myers had been in a car accident several years earlier and had chronic pain in her back and hips. Perhaps the jolt to the car had irritated the old injury, Morrice said she thought.Myers, sweating, said again, “It just really feels like I got shot.” It wasn’t until several minutes later — after Myers’s pulse had stopped, as Morrice stood on the rainy evening roadside, watching local Weyburn paramedics try to revive Myers — that she noticed the back gate of her SUV, illuminated by shining lights. There was a bullet hole. Andrea Morrice says she only realized her friend Tanya Myers had been shot when she saw the damage at the back end of her SUV, pictured here. She says she has been unable to drive since the day of the shooting. (Submitted by Andrea Morrice)“I quickly went and opened the side door and I could see a hole coming through the back seat, going through the back of the passenger seat,” she said. Morrice immediately yelled to the paramedics that Myers was right. She had been shot. They told her to call the police. Weyburn city police arrived first, followed by local RCMP officers then, later, officers from Saskatchewan RCMP’s major crimes unit.Myers died in the back of the ambulance, roughly three minutes after the paramedics arrived, Morrice estimates. She said she knew something was wrong when the ambulance did not leave for Regina. One of the paramedics, someone she had known for several years, came to the door of the police cruiser Morrice was sitting in, to give her his condolences. WATCH | Morrice recalls surreal moment her friend was fatally shot:’It feels like I’ve been shot’: Woman recounts surreal moment her friend was fatally shot inside vehicle on Sask. highwayAndrea Morrice was on a road trip with her friend, Tanya Myers, when a bullet entered Morrice’s SUV and killed Myers. The driver recounts how she discovered her friend had been shot.Still, Morrice said what happened did not sink in, not after the “amazing day” the two had had together in Regina at a fair — their first outing together as friends after years of knowing each other professionally. She said she asked an RCMP officer several hours later in the police station if Myers had “for sure” passed away. “The police officer looked shocked that I was asking, but it just didn’t seem real to me,” Morrice said. Myers had been wearing two sweaters and only a little bit of blood was visible on her back when the paramedics pulled her from the SUV once her pulse had stopped, Morrice said. “She wasn’t screaming out in pain,” Morrice said. “It was quite peaceful, I think,” she said. “We had no idea that she’d been shot until she was gone. Only she knew that.”When Morrice left the highway for the police station, she said her car was still running, on the side of the road. “I wasn’t allowed to get my jacket or water or anything out of the car, because it was a crime scene now.“I wanted to see Tanya, but they wouldn’t let me look in the ambulance because they said that was a crime scene as well,” Morrice said. A ‘first and last’ day together as friends Morrice and Myers first met in junior high school, but she said they only knew each other as acquaintances then. Their friendship slowly developed over the last 10 years after Morrice was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and began seeing Myers, who did natural healing treatments, for her pain.“She was able to do a lot of adjustments that really helped my pain and then I started doing her hair a couple years ago,” said Morrice, who has worked as a hairdresser for 27 years. She said the two mainly saw each other for appointments, but the two animal lovers would send each other videos of their pets. When Morrice saw there would be a fair in Regina on Sept. 12 featuring healing crystals and Reiki masters, she suggested they go together, as they both dealt with chronic pain. “We went and had this amazing day together,” she said. One of Tanya Myers’s cats, Calvin, climbs on Andrea Morrice’s back. Morrice says that since Myers’s death, her graduating class from high school has raised money to help look after Myers’s beloved animals. (Submitted by Andrea Morrice)It was “the first and last” outing the two really had as friends together, Morrice said. Morrice said Myers had nine cats and “was basically her own little cat rescue,” adding that Myers would post videos of her cat on TikTok, where she had more than 5,000 followers. “I think if she was physically well, she would have gone to the ends of the earth to help anyone, especially if they were an animal lover,” she said. Morrice described Myers’s family as the strongest one she’s come across. She said the family’s concern for her safety has been amazing, and that they are thankful the pair had a good day together. Investigation ongoingThe shooting sent shockwaves through the small southern Saskatchewan city of Weyburn — population around 12,000. Police say their investigation is still ongoing.Morrice said she decided to speak to CBC nearly a month after the fatal incident because she wants people to know “what a wonderful person Tanya was” and in the hopes that someone comes forward with information and helps the community feel safe again.“If someone is sitting at home and feels incredibly guilty that this happened, that they were the cause of it, I really just hope that they would come forward,” Morrice said. “I don’t feel like I want to see someone punished for this. We just want to know what happened, or why or how,” she said, “just so that we can get closure.” ABOUT THE AUTHORKatie Swyers is a reporter with CBC Saskatchewan, based in Regina. She is a 2021 Joan Donaldson Scholar and has previously worked for CBC Podcasts, CBC’s Marketplace, CBC’s network investigative unit, CBC Toronto, CBC Manitoba and as a chase producer for Canada Tonight on CBC News Network. You can reach her at katie.swyers@cbc.ca.
‘It just didnt seem real to me: Driver of SUV hit by fatal shot near Weyburn, Sask., shares how friend died
