A 68-year-old man is facing four murder charges, including three first-degree charges in the shooting deaths of four people in Penticton.

British Columbia Prosecution Service spokesperson Dan McLaughlin says John Brittian is also facing one count of second-degree murder.

He was a former employee with the City of Penticton, in the engineering department for several years before retiring.

The RCMP have said that the shootings began around 10:30 a.m. on Monday, when a 71-year-old man was killed outside a duplex in downtown Penticton.

The other three victims were found at neighbouring homes on Cornwall Drive, about five kilometres apart.

Police meanwhile haven’t released the names of the victims, but only said the victims and the shooter knew one another.

Yesterday, family members identified one of them as Penticton resident Rudi Winter.

Winter’s nephew said his uncle may have been killed because of a grudge by a former neighbour.

Global News is also reporting that the other victims are Susan and Barry Wonch, and Darlene Knippelberg.

The RCMP did confirm today that all the four victims are in their 60s and 70s.

Investigators do not have a motive for the shootings as yet.

 

– With files from the Canadian Press