A Duty to Remember: Memories still fresh - 50 years after Peterson Creek shootings
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Their names are forever etched on the history of Kamloops and the RCMP: Gordon Pedersen, Donald Weisgerber and Joseph Keck.
The three young officers in the city s detachment were shot in Peterson Creek on June 18, 1962. Their deaths came at the hands of George Booth, a 31-year-old man with a rifle and believed to be suffering from mental illness.
The trio were gunned down by Booth near the entrance to Peterson Creek Park; the shootings prompted a man hunt that eventually cost Booth his life, too.
A cairn was erected, first at the site where the officers fell, then moved inside the park, to pay tribute to their bravery and the loss of their young lives.