2 dead after daylight shooting in south Edmonton residential neighbourhood
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Police are investigating a shooting in south Edmonton over the noon hour on Monday.
Two people are dead and one person is in hospital as a result of a shooting in south Edmonton over the noon hour on Monday.
Emergency crews were called to a residential area at Cavanagh Boulevard and 30 Avenue SW around noon, according to the Edmonton Police Service.
"There are no immediate concerns for public safety at this time and responding officers have secured the scene. EPS homicide investigators will be leading this investigation," an EPS spokesperson said in an email to media at 1:24 p.m.
The family of one of the victims has identified him to CTV News Edmonton as Buta Singh Gill, owner of Edmonton-based Gill Built Homes.
At least 50 people gathered at the scene on Monday afternoon, most of them members of the South Asian home-building community.
Several people in the group could be seen crying.
A woman who says she witnessed the shooting as she was driving home described the scene to CTV News Edmonton.
