‘It’s Over and Done With’: Officer Testifies That Mountie Texted Wife After Shooting

Brett Herman, brother of Braden Herman who was killed in May of 2021, stands for a photograph outside of the Court of King's Bench in Prince Albert, Sask., on Dec. 4, 2023. The Canadian Press/Liam Richards

A police officer testified in the first-degree murder trial of a former Saskatchewan Mountie that Bernie Herman texted his wife saying he had shot a man on the night he was arrested.

Mr. Herman is on trial for the 2021 death of 26-year-old Braden Herman. The two are not related.