EDMONTON — Mounties are asking the public to help identify a person of interest after a rural roadside shooting left one utility worker wounded and a second person dead.
Driving two different trucks, the two were shot around midday Tuesday on a road just east of Calgary, sparking an emergency alert telling nearby residents to take shelter as two armed and dangerous suspects were on the loose.
RCMP have released a photo of a man with tattoos on his right arm, wearing a bucket hat.
They say they believe he may have information to help their homicide investigation, and he was seen in Cochrane on Monday between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m.
Mounties have yet to make an arrest but have said the shooting was not targeted.
RCMP say officers investigating the shooting are also looking into the theft of a quad from a property in Wheatland County reported on Wednesday afternoon.
They don't know whether the theft is connected to the shooting, but in a release Friday said officers are "following up on all potential leads."
Police have also said they want to speak to the occupants of a dark grey Volkswagen Golf Sportwagon who may have witnessed the shooting.
And they have appealed for information about a white 2013 Dodge Ram pickup truck with teal-coloured rims that was reported stolen in Calgary on Monday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 9, 2024.
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