Alberta RCMP say the suspect vehicle in the killing of 22-year-old Birinder Singh on the highway south of Edmonton last weekend has been recovered.

Mounties say they recovered the Grey 2022 Ford F-150 — without providing more details on the vehicle, its recovery, or the investigation — in a brief news release Thursday.

Investigators are still asking anyone with dashcam footage of Highway 2 south of Leduc, near Township Road 490, from Saturday around 2:50 p.m. to come forward.

Singh’s two friends, who were in the car with him, say Singh was driving in the left lane of the two-lane highway when the pickup truck pulled up next to them and two men gave them what appeared to be a peace sign with their hands. Thinking nothing of it, they say Singh flashed the sign back.

They say the pickup then slowed down before accelerating to once again come side by side with Singh.

“They put his driver’s side window down, and the person who is sitting on the passenger, he took his gun and he gave us a shot,” one of the friends recounted.

The pickup truck then sped off. Singh was struck in the neck and died of his injuries.

The friends told CityNews the shooting was random and unprovoked. They wondered if discrimination was to blame. Singh came to Canada from India three years ago.

The World Sikh Organization of Canada (WSO) is asking Alberta RCMP to investigate the killing as motivated by hate.

“This hasn’t been confirmed by the police, but it looks like the motivation behind the whole incident, behind this murder, was a hate against immigrants,” the WSO’s Jaspreet Singh said Wednesday.