‘Bizarre incident’ leaves man shot near Beiseker

RCMP say they are investigating a “bizarre incident” northeast of Airdrie on Sunday, when gunshots were fired during a car chase.

Between 5p.m. and 7p.m., Mounties say two men in an older-model white GMC pickup truck became lost in a rural area near Beiseker and Acme, and were chased from the location by three men in their 20s in a red Chevrolet truck.

“The men in the red truck chased the white truck through rural roads, attempting to force the white truck off the road several times by ramming the vehicle,” RCMP said Tuesday.

“Toward the end of the chase, the occupants of the red truck fired gunshots at the white truck, resulting in one of the occupants being shot and sustaining serious injuries.”

The red truck eventually stopped the chase as the vehicles approached Airdrie, where the victims reported the incident at the RCMP detachment.

Mounties want to talk to two men in a blue Ford F-150 who might have witnessed a portion of the chase near the Tschetter Hutterite colony east of Beiseker.

Anyone with information is asked to contact RCMP or Const. Riley Dykslag at 403-420-4966.