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Sikh international student shot dead on Highway 2 near Leduc, Alta.; calls for a hate-crime investigation
Leduc, Alberta — 2026-03-14
A 22-year-old Sikh international student from India was fatally shot on 14 March 2026 when someone in a pick-up truck opened fire on the car he was travelling in with friends on Highway 2 near Leduc, south of Edmonton. An 18-year-old man was charged with second-degree murder on 24 March. RCMP said the motive remains unclear and that a hate motivation is 'not off the table'; a national Sikh organization and the victim's companions have called for the killing to be investigated as a possible hate crime.
EvidenceCorroborated Incident
The core occurrence is supported by multiple independent, credible sources.
- Violence type
- Armed Robbery/Assault
- Motive
- Bias/Hate (alleged)
- Category
- Hate and identity-based incidents
- Targeted identities
- Sikh; South Asian
- Conduct
- Physical violence
- Targeted community
- Religion — Sikh
- Source type
- News reporting
- Perpetrator
- Individual (charged)
- Target
- Sikh international student
- Killed
- 1
- Injured
- 0
- Arrested
- 1
- Themes
- None
- Source
- CBC News
- Last reviewed
- 2026-10-13 · 1 correction
Source references
- https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/birinder-singh-homicide-9.7134946
- https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/singh-highway-homicide-arrest-9.7139958also reported
- https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/sikh-group-calls-for-hate-crime-investigation-into-qeii-shooting-death-of-student/also reported
- https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/alberta/sikh-organization-calls-for-hate-crime-probe-in-killing-of-former-brampton-resident-on-alberta-highway/article_5c3ffe8f-d58c-4949-87b2-bcb409862a07.htmlalso reported
- https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/03/18/rcmp-alberta-highway-killing-as-hate-crime-sikh/also reported