It’s been less than four months since Weinmayer was shot and killed by police outside a Montgomery Loonie Plus Store. His father William wasn't ready for an interview. His voice filled with rage and grief he says he’s not ready to talk. Maybe in a month. Call him back in a month.

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When the Calgary Journal reached back out to William Weinmayer, he declined an interview.

 

Weinmayer, 49, died in hospital after he allegedly tried to ram a stolen pickup truck into a lineup of police cars on Nov. 22, 2016. The Calgary Sun reported that two officers fired their guns at the truck as Weinmayer tried to make an escape.

 

The incident started as a routine stolen vehicle stop for CPS, but after the officers on scene allegedly boxed him into the strip mall parking lot, Weinmayer’s attempt to flee became fatal.

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Immediately after the shooting, Weinmeyer’s father let out his frustration and anguish in an interview with the Calgary Sun.

 

“They shot him three times in the (expletive) head and he didn’t have a chance,” he said. “He was murdered. The cops were judge, jury and executioner.”

 

The grieving father was candid with Postmedia about his son’s history of crime, a history that included theft, fraud and possession of stolen property.

 

But his deceased son, he explained, had mental health and addictions issues.

“...but that doesn’t mean he deserved to die,” he told the Sun. “Everyone makes him out to be some sort of gangster,  but if they knew him, he wasn’t like that.”