{"id":572184,"date":"2026-03-31T04:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/572184\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:39:19","slug":"extortion-shootings-at-surrey-b-c-business-complex-and-home-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/572184\/","title":{"rendered":"Extortion shootings at Surrey, B.C., business complex and home under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A previous shooting at the complex was reported on March 23, and police say at the time the motive was still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police in the Metro Vancouver city say they are also investigating another overnight shooting, this one at a home on 77A Avenue believed to be extortion-related as well. <\/p>\n<p>Surrey police say officers were called to the Newton area for reports of gunfire early Monday morning, where they found a home and vehicle parked outside damaged. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFortunately, none of the occupants of the home were injured,\u201d the statement says. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, B.C.\u2019s Provincial Extortion Task Force has announced that a 22-year-old man was arrested in Calgary last Friday in relation to a shooting in July 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Police say the man now faces a charge of reckless discharge of a firearm, and he has appeared in court in Alberta pending his transfer back to British Columbia. <\/p>\n<p>The B.C. RCMP say he has a bail hearing set for Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Surrey is among the Canadian communities hardest hit by recent spikes in extortion-related violence. The city reported 133 such cases last year and another 64 this year as of mid-March.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 30, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A previous shooting at the complex was reported on March 23, and police say at the time the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-572184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572184","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=572184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}