Calgary police are looking for information about two vehicles connected to a fatal shooting in the summer of 2015, a separate shooting and accomplices who tried to cover them up.
Staff Sgt. Doug Andrus with the Calgary Police Service homicide unit said Wednesday the slaying of Steven Sharda, who was gunned down alongside another man in a vehicle in the 5300 block of Rundlehorn Drive N.E. on July 11, 2015, shortly before 4 a.m., was actually the second shooting early that morning.
It’s now believed Sharda was involved in another shooting, which was never reported, along Rundlehorn Drive about half an hour before he was killed, and others involved in that shooting were involved in the second, deadly one.
A second man shot in the second incident was rushed to hospital in critical condition and survived.
Steven Sharda
Andrus said police are now looking for a black Dodge Ram 1500 truck with a Superman logo on the front grill, believed to have been used in the second shooting.
“We spoke to the owner (of the truck) during the early stages of this investigation,” he said.
“We didn’t make the link between the truck and the investigation until later on.
“By that time, the truck had disappeared, so we’re trying to locate that vehicle and the owner of the vehicle is being unco-operative.”
Andrus said police are also looking for a grey Toyota Camry believed to have been used in the first shooting — it was a rental, and was returned with evidence it had been shot at and efforts that had been made to repair the damage.
“We would like the information of where it was repaired and who repaired it,” he said.
“We believe they’re probably associates of the individuals involved.”
Police issued warrants for Sharda in 2014 as a part of Operation Wunderland, a five-week investigation of street-level drug trafficking that involved 35 suspects and more than 190 charges.
Police said Sharda’s death as well as a number of shooting incidents in 2015 including one that saw David Quach, 27, shot and killed on a driveway in the 7000 block of California Boulevard N.E. the night of Aug. 22, were all part of an ongoing dispute between organized crime group members.
