The family of a man shot and seriously injured at a jobsite 14 kilometres north of Prince Albert late last week is speaking out.
The morning of Oct. 24, Orlan Peterson was confronted by multiple suspects during a vehicle robbery at a site where he happened to be working that day.
The victim’s son, Josh Peterson, said his father remembers being thrown to the ground, where one man held the barrel of a gun to the back of his neck. The suspect then forced Orlan into the jobsite trailer at gunpoint before shooting him. The vehicle Orlan had driven to work that morning was stolen.
Josh says Orlan recalled being spoken to by the shooter.
“The man said to him, ‘sorry bro, but I gotta shoot you,'” Josh recounted. “Dad just kind of buried his head and started praying. And thankfully, as it turned out, he was able to kind of turn …