WEYBURN — A Regina man charged in the fatal 2025 highway shooting of a woman near Weyburn is asking Saskatchewan’s Court of Appeal to release him on bail after a lower court previously denied his release.
On June 30, the Regina Court of King’s Bench confirmed the courts have received a detention review application for Chris Fahlman dated June 15. The application cites a “material and relevant change in circumstances” indicating that detention is no longer justified, according to the court. On June 25, the matter was referred to the Court of Appeal. The Court of Appeal acknowledged the application but said no hearing date has been set yet.
According to the Saskatchewan Justice website, a detention review hearing considers factors that include the accused’s proposed release plan, the risk of flight, public safety, the seriousness of the offence, the strength of the Crown’s case, the potential sentence, time already spent in custody, and the scheduled dates for any trial or preliminary hearing.
Fahlman was arrested in November 2025 and denied bail that same month after a hearing in Weyburn Court of King's Bench.
A preliminary hearing to determine if there’s enough evidence for Fahlman to stand trial in the death of 44-year-old Tanya Myers is scheduled for October in Weyburn Circuit Court.
He has elected to be tried by judge and jury in the Court of King’s Bench.
Fahlman was initially charged with manslaughter, but the charge was later upgraded to second-degree murder.
The highway shooting
Myers was a passenger in one of two vehicles the RCMP said were struck by bullets while travelling on Highway 39 on Sept. 12, 2025.
Shortly after 8 p.m. on Sept. 12, 2025, first responders from the Weyburn Police Service and EMS were dispatched to a report of a person who had been seriously injured in an SUV travelling on Highway 39 approximately three kilometres northwest of Weyburn, near the Richardson Pioneer/Viterra grain terminals and elevators. Police determined that two women were travelling together in a black Ford Explorer towards Weyburn. A loud crack was heard, and the passenger, a 44-year-old woman from Weyburn, was struck by a bullet that had entered the moving Ford Explorer.
Community impact
The shooting shook the city 116 kilometres southeast of Regina. During a news conference in September 2025, Mayor Jeff Richards said the community of Weyburn was reeling after the shooting, describing a widespread feeling of “sadness and disbelief” among residents.
Richards said the incident was “a very unnerving experience” that has deeply affected the close-knit city of approximately 11,000 people.
After the shooting, the RCMP released a statement from Myers’ family describing her as a devoted energy healer and animal lover who rarely left home because of her extensive care routine for her nine cats.
The family said they are in shock and disbelief and that her death left a “giant gaping hole” in their lives and in the lives of her cats.
The RCMP said Fahlman and Myers were not known to each other.
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-With files by John Cairns, David Willberg, and Sara Parks
