At least one person was killed in a broad-daylight shooting on Monday afternoon in Surrey, police say.<\/p>\n
According to the Surrey Police Service (SPS), the incident occurred near the intersection of 130 Street and 76 Avenue shortly after 3 p.m.<\/p>\n
In a written statement, Sgt. Lindsey Houghton says that officers attend the scene, which is \u201cat a business.\u201d<\/p>\n
Upon arrival, SPS officers located a man apparently suffering from gunshot wounds and provided medical assistance until BC Emergency Health Service (BCEHS) arrived,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite life-saving efforts, the man was pronounced deceased on scene.\u201d<\/p>\n
Images from the scene show that police have cordoned off entrances to a commercial building.<\/p>\n
A homicide investigation has been launched by the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT).<\/p>\n
No arrests have been made yet.<\/p>\n
Police did not provide any additional information on whether this incident is extortion-related. <\/p>\n
Witnesses are asked to contact IHIT at 1-877-551-IHIT (4448). <\/p>\n
CityNews has reached out to SPS for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least one person was killed in a broad-daylight shooting on Monday afternoon in Surrey, police say. According…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-648321","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\/648321","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=648321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}