The Crown will be downgrading the murder charge for one of two men arrested after a deadly roadside shooting near Calgary in August. Thirty-five-year-old Arthur Wayne Penner was originally charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder. But the prosecution has indicated in court Penner will now be facing trial on second-degree murder instead. The second suspect, 28-year-old Elijah Blake Strawberry, was arrested at a residence in O’Chiese First Nation last month and charged with second-degree murder and attempted murder. They were caught after a manhunt that began Aug. 6 following the fatal shooting of one man and the wounding of another who were working along a roadway in Rocky View County, east of Calgary, when a county truck was stolen from the scene. The two men, who will be tried…
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