Paramedic widow learned husband was shot while trying to save second Edmonton officer
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EDMONTON – The wife of an Edmonton police officer says she was working her night shift as a paramedic when she saw a colleague working to revive her husband’s bloodied body.
Ashley Ryan recounted the traumatic moment in reading her victim impact statement in a sentencing hearing.
Constables Brett Ryan and Travis Jordan were responding to a domestic disturbance in 2023, when they were ambushed and shot dead by a teenage boy.
Ashley Ryan, 15 weeks pregnant at the time with the couple’s first child, says she was working to revive Jordan when she realized the other wounded officer was her husband.
She told court that she has since suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression and that she can no longer work in the career she loved.
Court heard Dennis Okeymow sold a rifle to 16-year-old Roman Shewchuk, who used to it to kill the two officers before turning the weapon on himself.
Okeymow was found guilty in May on 10 charges, including three counts of manslaughter and three counts of criminal negligence causing death.