{"id":541896,"date":"2026-03-17T07:58:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/541896\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T07:58:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:58:37","slug":"22-year-old-man-killed-in-weekend-drive-by-shooting-on-qeii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/541896\/","title":{"rendered":"22-year-old man killed in weekend drive-by shooting on QEII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Family and friends are identifying the man shot on Highway 2 south of Edmonton this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Birinder Singh, 22, was driving with friends on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Mounties say reports came in around 2:50 p.m., indicating someone noticed a white\/grey dirty pickup truck pull beside a car that was later identified as a black 2012 Honda Civic, before speeding off while the Civic pulled over.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Birinder-1-647x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-733844\"\/>22-year-old Birinder Singh, who has been identified as the man killed in a shooting on Highway 2 on Saturday afternoon, south of Edmonton. (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>Through an investigation, police learned that a weapon had been discharged toward the Civic, resulting in the driver\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>The major crimes unit is now handling the investigation and trying to determine a motive.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/birinder-singh-tbymh?attribution_id=sl:1ef39ef0-227c-4c1f-b95e-7ae09062060b&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1773690832&amp;utm_campaign=fp_below_fold&amp;utm_content=amp20_t2&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe<\/a> has been set up to bring Singh\u2019s body back to India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Family and friends are identifying the man shot on Highway 2 south of Edmonton this weekend. Birinder Singh,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-541896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}