3 men accused in Surrey extortion-related shooting, fire in court<\/p>\n
Published 1:30 pm Friday, April 17, 2026<\/p>\n
A trio of extortion suspects who allegedly fled a South Surrey crime scene in a rideshare<\/a> appeared via video in Surrey provincial court Friday (April 17).<\/p>\n The three men were charged in relation to incidents in the early-morning hours of Feb. 1 after shots were fired and a small fire started outside a residence near Crescent Road and 132 Street around 3:50 a.m.; police believe the incidents are extortion-related.<\/p>\n All three were taken into custody near 28 Avenue and 140 Street after getting into a rideshare <\/a>car<\/a>.<\/p>\n Harjot Singh, 21, Taranveer Singh, 19, and Dayajeet Singh Billing, 21, have been charged with three counts each under the Criminal Code of Canada: once count of discharging a firearm into a place, placing\/throwing an explosive to damage property, and possessing a loaded or unloaded potentially prohibited or restricted firearm with access to ammunition.<\/p>\n All three were wearing the bright red sweatshirts provided in custody and used a Punjabi interpreter.<\/p>\n Judge David Silverman set the date for a disposition \u2014 where criminal charges can be ended by a judge imposing a sentence or Crown counsel entering a stay of proceedings or withdrawing a charge \u2014 for all three co-accused for Monday, April 20 at 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n Another date \u2014 to confirm a sentencing date \u2014 was set for April 28 in Surrey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3 men accused in Surrey extortion-related shooting, fire in court Published 1:30 pm Friday, April 17, 2026 A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-611026","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\/611026","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=611026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}