Armed suspects at large after 1 person killed, another injured in Wheatland County
Mounties say armed, risky and unidentified people stay at huge after one man or woman changed into killed and some other changed into wounded in Wheatland County on Tuesday.
Officers had been referred to Township Road 250 and Range Road 282 simply earlier than midday for a shooting, Staff Sgt. Mark Wielosz, detachment commander for the Strathmore RCMP, stated later withinside the evening.
"Our individuals found that people have been shot. One superficially. Tragically, the second one succumbed to their injuries," Wielosz stated .
"Our individuals had been capable of become aware of that offenders had fled the scene in a white half-ton pickup truck, which changed into a Rocky View County fleet automobile ."
Wielosz says police tracked the automobile to some other location, close to Township Road 252 and Range Road 260.
The automobile have been dumped and it changed into in the end decided the suspects had been now not withinside the area.
While that changed into being decided , an emergency alert and a shelter-in- area order had been issued.
That changed into simply after 1:30 p.m. The orders had been lifted a while later.
"We applied the help of all regulation enforcement groups and our companions withinside the area," Wielosz stated .
Wielosz says a reason for the violence and whether or not it changed into centered is unknown.
He additionally says that, currently, there aren't any descriptions of the suspects for police to provide the public.
Police aren't liberating the identification of the deceased at this time.
Tuesday evening, the RCMP did launch an picture of the white fleet automobile .
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