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May 12, 2022 9:15 AM - The CANADIAN PRESS

Bystander dies after road-rage shooting led to crash, Calgary police say

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Calgary police say a woman has died after a road-rage shooting that led to a four-vehicle crash.The police service says in a news release that it received multiple reports last night about two vehicles driving erratically and an exchange of gunfire in the city's northeast.

They say at least two homes were struck by stray bullets. Police say the two vehicles pursued one another before colliding with other vehicles at an intersection in the southeast.

Officers say people in the two vehicles continued to fire shots at each other at the scene before fleeing on foot. The driver of a silver van, a 40-year old woman not involved in the shooting, was declared dead at the scene and the driver of another vehicle was uninjured.

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