{"id":711270,"date":"2026-06-03T02:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/711270\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T02:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:03:09","slug":"18-year-old-who-was-shot-dead-in-vehicle-in-surrey-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/711270\/","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old who was shot dead in vehicle in Surrey identified"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Homicide investigators have identified a young man who was recently shot dead in a vehicle, which subsequently hit a power pole, in Surrey, B.C., as 18-year-old Gaurav Deol.<\/p>\n

Deol was found in the area of 138 Street and 62 Avenue<\/a> just before 12:30 a.m. PT on May 31. Police said he was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Sgt. Freda Fong with the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) said police were releasing Deol’s identity as they work to understand his lifestyle and activities leading up to the fatal shooting.<\/p>\n

No suspects have been named, but police believe the attack is targeted. <\/p>\n

Fong said police are working closely with Deol’s family.<\/p>\n

“We have to remember that this is an 18-year-old very young man, and he leaves behind a grieving family. So despite the speculations, we would like to emphasize that the victim himself does not have a criminal record,” she said.<\/p>\n

“But we did uncover that he had recent contacts with members associated to organized crime, that is something that we will have to explore as a motivation,” Fong added.<\/p>\n

\"SeveralSurrey police say officers found a man suffering gunshot wounds in Surrey’s Newton area just after midnight Sunday morning. (Shane MacKichan)<\/p>\n

The IHIT spokesperson confirmed that, shortly after Deol was found, a white Toyota SUV was found on fire nearby and it has been linked to the homicide.<\/p>\n

Deol’s death marked Surrey’s 13th homicide of the year, according to the Surrey Police Service. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-711270","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\/711270","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=711270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}