Police have identified the woman who was killed in a mysterious shooting on a Saskatchewan highway last week.

At a press conference Tuesday afternoon, RCMP identified the victim as 44-year-old Tanya Myers and read a public appeal from her family.

"We're all in shock and disbelief, and the loss of Tanya leaves a giant, gaping hole in our lives, and her cats' lives, who are all wondering where their mom has gone," the family wrote, noting Myers rarely left home because she cared for nine cats.

On Friday, Myers and another woman were driving toward Weyburn, Sask., on Highway 39 in a Ford Explorer around 8 p.m. CST when Myers, who was in the passenger seat, was fatally hit by a bullet, according to RCMP.

At the time of the shooting, the two women were approximately three kilometres northwe

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