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A 31-year-old man has been denied bail after being charged with second-degree murder in the case of two Métis hunters shot dead last Friday in the wake of a fight on the side of a rural northern Alberta road, RCMP say.

Jake Sansom, 39, and Morris Cardinal, 57, were found shot to death Saturday morning on the road north of Glendon, about 225 kilometres northeast of Edmonton. Police say they didn’t know their attacker.

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Autopsy results released Wednesday ruled the cause of death for both men as homicide by gunshot.

“We don’t know what the dispute was over at this time. We’re still looking into investigative theories,” Staff Sgt. Jason Zazulak said Thursday. “Our belief, from the investigators, is the initial conflict was between Jacob, Morris and the occupants of the second vehicle that arrived on scene … We don’t know what the exact nature of the altercation or conflict was.”

Zazulak said investigators are still trying to determine a motive, and they haven’t learned anything to suggest the slaying was racially motivated.