Saskatoon nurses surrounded after leaving shift at RUH

A Saskatoon nurse is warning fellow nurses who work at the Royal University Hospital (RUH) to be careful when walking to their cars after their shift.

In a Facebook post that has now been shared nearly 4,000 times, Shauna Dugan wrote that five or six men in dark clothing surrounded her and two of her colleagues Tuesday night while they crossed ‘the tree park’, which is called President Murray Park, near Brunskill School.

Many nurses who work at RUH said they have to leave their vehicles near the park, which is several blocks south of the university campus.

Dugan said the men, who looked to be between 18 and 20 years old, emerged from the trees and began closing in on her group in mere seconds. According to the post, Dugan and her coworkers were able to run to the nearest car before anything happened, but she noted how “this situation very easily could have ended very differently.”