UPDATE: Victim identified in Surrey homicide<\/p>\n
Published 8:45 am Thursday, April 9, 2026<\/p>\n
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has identified a Surrey homicide victim and is now appealing for witnesses to the crime.<\/p>\n
Shortly after 9 p.m. on Wednesday (April 8), Surrey Police Service officers responded to assist BC Emergency Health Services paramedics with an injured man in the 9700-block of 134 Street.<\/p>\n
Upon arrival, officers located a man apparently suffering from injuries who was receiving treatment.<\/p>\n
He man was transported to an area hospital by BCEHS paramedics, but despite life-saving efforts, the man died.<\/p>\n
IHIT continues to work in close partnership with SPS and the Integrated Forensic Identification Service to establish the circumstances surrounding the death, an IHIT release noted.<\/p>\n
While the investigation is in its early stages, investigators believe this was an isolated incident stemming from a verbal dispute.<\/p>\n
In an effort to advance the investigation, IHIT is identifying the victim as 34-year-old Matthew Neely of Surrey.<\/p>\n
Investigators are expected to be at the scene for some time as an extensive canvass for video and witnesses is underway.<\/p>\n
\u201cEstablishing the victim\u2019s background and a timeline of his arrival to the area is critical as this will help us determine the events leading up to his death,\u201d said IHIT Sgt. Freda Fong. \u201cIt is important for anyone who had recent contact with Mr. Neely to call IHIT right away.\u201d<\/p>\n
IHIT investigators are seeking information and dashcam footage from any witnesses who were in the area on Wednesday, April 8 between 8 and 9:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to call the IHIT information line at 1-877-551-IHIT (4448) or by email at ihitinfo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Victim identified in Surrey homicide Published 8:45 am Thursday, April 9, 2026 The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-593375","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\/593375","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=593375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}