The death of Sergeant Ryan Russell: Owner of stolen snowplow haunted by officer’s death

Friday, January 14, 2011 – Globe and Mail
PATRICK WHITE, GREG McARTHUR and ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY

Toronto and St. Catharines, Ont. — A day after he watched his stolen plow-truck lurch away on an ill-fated path up Parliament Street, Daniel Da Silva can’t purge the memory or the guilt.

“I keep thinking about it,” he said, a day after the truck ricocheted through downtown streets with a troubled man behind the wheel, eventually crushing and killing 35-year-old Toronto police Sergeant Ryan Russell. “I don’t know what else I could have done to stop him.”

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