An 18-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder in a deadly daytime shooting on a highway south of Edmonton. The circumstances of the killing — Singh was a devout Amritdhari Sikh — have prompted calls for police to investigate it as a potential hate crime. A friend who was in the car and watched Singh die on the highway, also called on the RCMP to investigate the shooting as a hate crime. The man, who spoke with CBC News on condition of confidentiality, characterized the shooting as unprovoked and said Singh was a kind, hard worker who had no conflict with anyone. In an interview Tuesday, the man told CBC News he relieved that the RCMP investigation had resulted in an arrest.

Source: CBC News March 25, 2026 03:53 UTC