{"id":137503,"date":"2025-09-12T01:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/137503\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T01:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:54:07","slug":"ihit-identifies-victim-in-fatal-friday-night-shooting-in-langley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/137503\/","title":{"rendered":"IHIT identifies victim in fatal Friday night shooting in Langley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) has identified the victim in a fatal Langley shooting on Sept. 5 as 24-year-old Taran Pandher.<\/p>\n<p>The Langley RCMP says it was called to the area of 200th Street and 53rd Avenue just before 10:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>When they arrived, they found Pandher and initiated lifesaving measures, but he died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Officers say the shooting happened while the victim was inside a taxi.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"373\" height=\"542\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PANDHER-TARAN.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Taran Pandher\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Taran Pandher (IHIT Image)<\/p>\n<p>Police believe the incident was targeted and related to the B.C. Gang Conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Pandner was known to police and believed to be connected to organized crime,\u201d Cpl. Sukhi Dhesi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to the gang nexus of the homicide, [IHIT\u2019s Integrated Gang Homicide Team] has taken conduct of the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police say they also received reports of a vehicle fire in the area of 132nd Street and 64A Avenue in Surrey at 11 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigators believe this to be connected to the homicide,\u201d Dhesi said.<\/p>\n<p>No other injuries have been reported, IHIT says.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with dash cam or CCTV video of either of the areas between 9 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. is asked to call IHIT at 1-877-551-IHIT (4448) or email ihitinfo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) has identified the victim in a fatal Langley shooting on Sept. 5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-137503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}