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“I laid in that tall grass and I heard everything,” she said. “I heard my house just crumbling, I heard the breaking of stuff.”

“I took off running, hid in the back yard. I’m homeless, lost everything,” the woman said. She was at home with a neighbour at the time. Upon phoning 9-1-1 and contacting her husband who was not at home, she said his reaction was, “what, where the f— are you?”

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She said that before leaving the scene with her husband, the couple and her husband’s brother first had to restrain the man as he attempted to steal their truck. Police then came and arrested the man and took him away, she said, with the man yelling that the couple “deserved it” as he was arrested.

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The woman said the suspect might have been disgruntled over an ongoing divorce with her husband’s mother.

The home sustained significant damage. The woman said her husband had been left “numb.” She added she has a nine-year-old daughter who was in Yorkton with relatives when the incident was happened, and was also thankful that she had since found her cat, alive and well.

“She’s devastated and doesn’t want to come home,” she said of her daughter. “This man’s ruined my life.”

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Ronald Fatteicher, 59, of the RM of Calder has been charged with two counts of attempted murder, two counts of utter threats to cause death or harm, four counts of mischief over $5,000, one count of assault police officer, one count of intimidation of justice participant and two counts breach of undertaking.

Fatteicher is scheduled to appear in Yorkton Provincial Court on July 27 at 10 a.m. Police had no further details to release.

The RM of Calder is located approximately 56 kilometres east of Yorkton.

The woman said the local RCMP had been very helpful, and also thanked neighbours for their “overwhelming” support. She said the couple were just married in October and feared wedding videos and photos had been destroyed.

Asked where the family goes from here, she said: “We go up. We build. Build a new home.”

MMelnychuk@postmedia.com