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October 23, 2006
Gravel truck driver slain
EDMONTON
An Edmonton man has been charged with second-degree murder after a gravel truck driver was slain near Bonnyville last week.
Joginder Singh Litt, 24, who moved to Edmonton last year from Vancouver, was charged in the death of Jagdeep Singh Sandhu, 27.
RCMP confirmed there had been a dispute between two gravel truck drivers near La Corey, which is 20 kilometres north of Bonnyville.
Some witnesses say the confrontation was sparked when one of the truck drivers pulled in front of the other on a haul road.
Harry Bhullar, a relative of Sandhu’s, says the dispute stemmed back to a gravel haulers’ strike in Lac La Biche last year when Sandhu supported the union and another driver crossed the picket line.
Dwight Brissette of Ledcor, a construction company, says both men were independent contractors.
Brissette says counsellors have also been made available for anyone who witnessed the incident.
“It’s not common that this happens,’’ he said. “Hopefully nothing like this ever happens again.’’
Both men involved had been on the Ledcor job for less than a week.
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