Fortis Alberta says one of its employees was shot and injured while performing routine work east of Calgary. The RCMP logo is seen in Surrey, B.C., on April 13, 2018. Mounties are asking the public to help identify a person of interest after a rural roadside shooting left one worker wounded and a second person dead. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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 rural 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 photograph 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 that was seen in Cochrane on Monday, between 7 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 on Wednesday afternoon.
Police have said they want to speak to the occupants of a dark grey Volkswagen Golf Sportwagon who may have witnessed the shooting. They have also appealed for information about a white 2013 Dodge Ram pickup truck with teal-coloured rims that was reported stolen in Calgary a day earlier.
This report by The Canadian Press was first publishedAug. 9, 2024.
