{"id":547711,"date":"2026-03-19T22:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/547711\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T22:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:52:08","slug":"alberta-highway-killing-suspect-vehicle-recovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/547711\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta highway killing: suspect vehicle recovered"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alberta RCMP say the suspect vehicle in the killing of 22-year-old Birinder Singh on the highway south of Edmonton last weekend has been recovered.<\/p>\n

Mounties say they recovered the Grey 2022 Ford F-150 \u2014 without providing more details on the vehicle, its recovery, or the investigation \u2014 in a brief news release Thursday.<\/p>\n

Investigators are still asking anyone with dashcam footage of Highway 2 south of Leduc, near Township Road 490, from Saturday around 2:50 p.m. to come forward.<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s not road rage\u2019: Friends in car with 22-year-old killed on highway south of Edmonton describe shooting as unprovoked<\/a><\/p>\n

Singh\u2019s two friends, who were in the car with him, say Singh was driving in the left lane of the two-lane highway when the pickup truck pulled up next to them and two men gave them what appeared to be a peace sign with their hands. Thinking nothing of it, they say Singh flashed the sign back.<\/p>\n

They say the pickup then slowed down before accelerating to once again come side by side with Singh.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey put his driver\u2019s side window down, and the person who is sitting on the passenger, he took his gun and he gave us a shot,\u201d one of the friends recounted.<\/p>\n

The pickup truck then sped off. Singh was struck in the neck and died of his injuries.<\/p>\n

\"\"Birinder Singh, who was killed in a highway shooting on March 14, 2026, came to Canada from India three years ago and moved to Edmonton five months ago. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

The friends told CityNews the shooting was random and unprovoked. They wondered if discrimination was to blame. Singh came to Canada from India three years ago.<\/p>\n

The World Sikh Organization of Canada (WSO) is asking Alberta RCMP to investigate the killing as motivated by hate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis hasn\u2019t been confirmed by the police, but it looks like the motivation behind the whole incident, behind this murder, was a hate against immigrants,\u201d the WSO\u2019s Jaspreet Singh said Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alberta RCMP say the suspect vehicle in the killing of 22-year-old Birinder Singh on the highway south of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-547711","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\/547711","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=547711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}