RCMP Const. Shelby Patton killed while on duty in Saskatchewan

Police are mourning the death of an RCMP officer killed in the line of duty in rural Saskatchewan.

Const. Shelby Patton was hit by an allegedly stolen truck that he had pulled over at about 8 a.m. Saturday in Wolseley, Sask — just east of Regina, Sask.

Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore of the Saskatchewan RCMP says Patton’s colleagues at the Indian Head detachment have been traumatized by his death.

She says it’s a close-knit team, with a “family-like environment” and there will be supports in place to help them through their grief.

Patton, who was 26, had been a Mountie for more than six years — almost all of which he spent at the Indian Head detachment.

Blackmore says a man and a woman have been arrested, and charges are pending.

The officer leaves behind a wife.

—With files from Jessika Guse