UPDATE: Lockdown lifted at Abbotsford hospital after weapon report<\/p>\n
Published 2:54 pm Monday, March 16, 2026<\/p>\n
A lockdown has been lifted that was put in place at Abbotsford Regional Hospital on Monday afternoon (March 16) after a report of weapon, and a man has been arrested.<\/p>\n
Sgt. Paul Walker, media officer with the Abbotsford Police Department, said police received a call at 2:04 p.m. from hospital staff, saying that someone had reported seeing a person with a gun.<\/p>\n
He said about 30 officers arrived on scene. The hospital was placed on lockdown and a floor-by-floor, room-by-room search was conducted.<\/p>\n
Walker said the suspect, who had left the hospital in a vehicle at some point, was arrested outside the hospital at another location.<\/p>\n
He said nobody was injured in the incident and there is no further public safety risk.<\/p>\n
Police reported on social media at about 3:15 p.m. that the lockdown had been lifted.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wish to thank the public and the hospital staff for their patience and professionalism throughout this incident,\u201d the post states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Lockdown lifted at Abbotsford hospital after weapon report Published 2:54 pm Monday, March 16, 2026 A lockdown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":{"0":"post-541698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-surrey","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-surrey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541698","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=541698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}