Shooter still out there

It’s been a challenging year for the Creber family as February 4, 2021, marks the first anniversary when Glenn Creber, a father, husband, and grandfather, was shot multiple times while sitting in his semi-truck in the parking lot of the Mayerthorpe Co-Op Cardlock doing paperwork. It’s only by a miracle Glenn survived that evening, but the images and painful memories remain. The file remains open with the RCMP as the crime is not solved, and few investigative details are being released. It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack, but someone out there knows something or knows someone who owned a high-powered rifle and drove a dark-coloured Dodge truck during that time. The Creber’s are praying justice will prevail and hoping someone will step forward with information to help end their nightmare.

Glenn’s wife, Sherri, commented that she’d lost count on how many surgeries her husband endured to repair the damage caused by the shooting. Glenn’s first surgery was to remove the larger bullet shrapnel and material and then assess the significant organs for damage. The many surgeries that followed involved having to go back in to remove more shrapnel pieces. “The largest wound, just above the pelvis, was six inches in diameter and big enough the surgeon was able to insert her whole arm up the bullet path.  Everyone is still amazed as all three bullets miraculously travelled through his body, narrowly missing his heart and no organ damage other than fractured ribs, destroyed muscles and tendons”, stated Sherri. After spending 24 days in the hospital undergoing countless surgeries and successful skin grafts, Glenn was released to recover in his own home.

Glenn was determined not to let the shooting get the better of him, and after five months of recovering, he returned to work for Whitecourt Transport on June 1, 2020, driving his same truck. Sherri interjected, “Whitecourt Transport was amazing throughout the ordeal. They organized the GoFundMe, cleaned all the blood from the cab and repaired Glenn’s truck so it would be ready and waiting upon his return. Having the guys from Whitecourt Transport, our sons and family close by, was instrumental during recovery.”

Despite all the assistance Glenn’s received to heal physically, he still suffers mentally from PTSD and fears getting reshot. To suddenly get shot multiple times without reason and be left alone to die is not something a person can easily overcome. Not long ago, while Glenn was hauling a load down the highway, his driver’s window blew out, and immediately his mind travelled, and he was sure someone was shooting at him. As it turned out, a rock ricocheted, hitting the window. Sherri added, “I think about that night every day; we all do. It seems like it was just last week, and I replay those events over and over in my mind right from the time I received the phone call. Now when Glenn’s gone to work and the phone rings, I’m afraid to answer it for fear something happened to him again.” The Creber family is receiving counselling to help them work through their feelings and thoughts about the “what ifs.” They are a very close family, and the idea of losing him is devastating.