{"id":243224,"date":"2025-10-27T10:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T10:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/243224\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T10:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T10:18:14","slug":"shots-fired-at-delta-residence-overnight-police-say-incident-likely-related-to-extortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/243224\/","title":{"rendered":"Shots fired at Delta residence overnight; police say incident likely related to extortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Delta say they are investigating after an overnight shooting that they believe was targeted and related to extortion.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called to a residence on 78B Avenue and 112th Street at 2:43 a.m., where they found shell casing and confirmed that several shots were fired at the home.<\/p>\n<p>The home was occupied at the time of the shooting, but no injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>CCTV footage shows a suspect getting out of a white SUV and firing several shots into the home before fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreliminary Investigation indicates this to be a targeted incident and related to an extortion investigation,\u201d the Delta Police Department (DPD) said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigators will be liaising with police partners and the Provincial Extortion Task Force to determine if there are any links to other files.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The shooting <a href=\"https:\/\/vancouver.citynews.ca\/2025\/10\/26\/surrey-bc-shots-fired-home-overnight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">happened at the same time \u2014 2:43 a.m. \u2014 as a similar incident just 12 blocks away in Surrey<\/a>. Surrey Police Service (SPS) Staff Sgt. Lindsay Houghton tells CityNews that the SPS and DPD are liaising to see if the two shootings are connected, given the timing and proximity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Delta say they are investigating after an overnight shooting that they believe was targeted and related&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-243224","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\/243224","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=243224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}