{"id":415121,"date":"2026-01-17T10:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/415121\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T10:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:37:18","slug":"man-arrested-following-homicide-in-abbotsford-hotel-room-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/415121\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested following homicide in Abbotsford hotel room &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A man has been arrested following a homicide in a hotel room in Abbotsford, B.C.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police said that officers were called to the Best Western Hotel near Marshall and Clearbrook roads just before noon on Thursday for reports of a \u201csuspicious circumstance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police said the scene was contained to a single room within the hotel and there is no ongoing risk to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>While the investigation is in its early stages, police believe this is an isolated incident and not connected to any ongoing gang activity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat i want to stress, though, is that this incident that occurred today is isolated,\u201d Sgt. Paul Walker with the Abbotsford Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an isolated incident that occurred in a hotel room. Also, this incident is not connected, or not believed to be connected to any extortion-related events that have been going on in the Lower Mainland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/the-curator\/11605051\/lunar-new-year-best-gifts-and-decor-to-celebrate-the-year-of-the-horse\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768646238_636_Lunar-Year.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tLunar New Year 2026: Best Gifts and Decor to Celebrate the Year of the Horse\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11617010\/canada-china-trade-deal-trump-us-reaction\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768646238_493_CP175634932.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tTrump calls Canada-China deal \u2018good thing\u2019 as U.S. officials voice concern\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>On Friday afternoon, the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said charges of second-degree murder and indignity to human remains have been laid against 26-year-old Sondeep Singh Gill of Abbotsford.<\/p>\n<p>The victim has been identified as a 30-year-old woman who was living in Abbotsford.<\/p>\n<p>No further details about their relationship are being provided.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size A man has been arrested following a homicide in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[39612,174445,49,48,2169,44],"class_list":["post-415121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-abbotsford-crime","tag-abbotsford-homicide","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415121","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=415121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}