Surrey sees 17th extortion-related shooting of the year<\/p>\n
Published 9:25 am Wednesday, May 20, 2026<\/p>\n
Police in Surrey are investigating an extortion-related shooting at a home in Surrey\u2019s Newton neighbourhood in the early morning hours of May 20.<\/p>\n
Police responded to a shooting at around 4:40 a.m. in the 5700-block of 148 Street. Officers found that a home in the area had been damaged by gunfire, and there was \u201cevidence of shots fired.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe residence was occupied at the time of the shooting and, fortunately, no one was injured,\u201d Surrey police media relations officer Sgt. Ali Gailus.<\/p>\n
The Surrey Police extortion response team is investigating the shooting and the Integrated Forensic Identification Services team will be in the area looking for evidence. Investigators believe the shooting is extortion-related.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about this incident, including CCTV or dashcam footage, or who may know the identities of the suspects, is asked to contact SPS\u2019 non-emergency line at 604-599-0502, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or www.solvecrime.ca and quote file number 26-49687 (SP).<\/p>\n
To date, there have been 108 reported extortions, 17 shots fired, two arsons and 59 victims (27 repeat) in Surrey this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey sees 17th extortion-related shooting of the year Published 9:25 am Wednesday, May 20, 2026 Police in Surrey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-682487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682487","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=682487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}