{"id":556357,"date":"2026-03-24T00:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/556357\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T00:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:31:08","slug":"homicide-investigators-probe-death-of-man-45-in-surrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/556357\/","title":{"rendered":"Homicide investigators probe death of man, 45, in Surrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has identified a man who died in Surrey over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">IHIT said 45-year-old Zachery Rider of the Lower Mainland area was found injured and unresponsive by police on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a statement, IHIT said police responded to reports of an unresponsive male around 11:15 a.m. in the 9800 block of Foxglove Drive. Despite life-saving efforts from first responders, he was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man was arrested shortly after, but IHIT said he was released without charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While it&#8217;s early in the investigation, police said it&#8217;s believed this was an isolated incident and there is no ongoing risk to the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cInvestigators continue to work diligently to determine the circumstances surrounding the death,\u201d IHIT Sgt. Freda Fong said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cA number of witness interviews are ongoing as we establish the deceased\u2019s background and a timeline of his arrival to the area. Anyone who had recent contact with Mr. Rider is urged to contact IHIT right away.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has identified a man who died in Surrey over the weekend. IHIT said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,210549,210550,87674,215537],"class_list":["post-556357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ihit","tag-integrated-homicide-investigation-team","tag-surrey","tag-zachery-rider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556357","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=556357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}