RCMP Briefs: Reward up to $10K for whereabouts of highway murder suspect

By Medicine Hat News on August 24, 2024.

The reward for a man wanted for an Aug. 6 murder on a rural highway has increased to $10,000, the RCMP and other law enforcement agencies announced Friday.

Elijah Blake Strawberry, 28, is wanted after a Rockyview County employee was killed and a power line shot and injured in an apparent car-jacking attempt earlier this month.

Another man, Arthur Wayne Penner, 35, of Edmonton, was charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder on Aug. 12. He is in custody but Strawberry has eluded police.

RCMP in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan are offering up to $10,000 for information that leads to his arrest before Aug. 30.

Tips are to be provided to RCMP at the Strathmore detachment (403-934-3535) or by calling 911. He is considered armed and dangerous and should not be approached.

Strawberry has a light complexion, stands 6-foot-1 and weighs 169 pounds with brown hair and several tattoos on his arm and face.

Crash victim dies

A teenage girl who was airlifted to hospital after a car crash on Highway 3 this week has died.

Coaldale RCMP said four children from two cars were transported by air-ambulance in serious condition on Wednesday morning after the vehicles they were travelling in collided head-on north of Coalhurst near the interchange with Highway 3A.

RCMP said Friday that a 13-year-old female resident of Calgary has died of her injuries.