Police scenes in west Edmonton, Parkland County after deadly college shooting
Edmonton homicide detectives are investigating a fatal shooting at a trades college in the city’s northwest end Friday, that may also linked to a RCMP scene west of the city in Parkland County.
Edmonton police were called to the Alberta Pipe Trades College near 161 Street and 118 Avenue at about 8:30 a.m.
Witnesses told Global News a person in a grey sedan with tinted windows pulled into the parking lot, got out of the vehicle and opened fire.
“I was inside, all we heard were the gunshots,” said a student named Lisa. “I thought it was some banging on the roof until some students came in.”
Upon arrival, Edmonton police said its officers found an man suffering from life-threatening injuries, who was pronounced dead on scene a short while later.
At the scene, a white truck could be seen in the parking lot with its driver and rear doors open. Pylons surrounded the vehicle and what appeared to be a body covered by a tarp was nearby.
One student said he was in the parking lot getting coffee from his vehicle when the shooting happened.
After closing and locking his car door, he heard what he initially thought were fireworks before realizing the sounds were gunshots.
“I hear five to six gunshots ring out. I thought it was tanks exploding or something,” said a student named Ronnie, who said he then saw another student come running around a corner.
“I asked him like, ‘What’s going on? What’s happening? Is something exploding?’ And he said, ‘No, someone is shooting the school here.'”
The student said he ran back into the building. Police arrived within minutes and classrooms were locked down.
Other students told Global News they saw a car leave the parking lot at a high rate of speed following the shooting.
The college parking lot remained behind police tape Friday, and more than half a dozen EPS cruisers were at the scene.
Students whose vehicles were inside the secured area were unable to retrieve them, and buses were provided to transport them elsewhere.
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