‘I don’t want to die’: Officers testify about weapons call on Walpole Island

Robert Miskokomon had two thoughts go through his mind as a white SUV barrelled toward him and his partner and gunshots rang out. His family, and staying alive to see them again. “I don’t want to die that day,” Miskokomon, a Walpole Island police officer, recalled his thoughts from March 2. Carlos Teixeira, a Lambton OPP officer working alongside Miskokomon during a weapons call on Walpole Island that Sunday morning, had a similar thought. “He’s going to kill me,&rd