A former University of Surrey student has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a man was shot with a crossbow in Guildford.<\/p>\n
The victim, who is in his 50s and a member of the university\u2019s campus safety team, was seriously injured in the incident and is being treated at Royal Surrey County hospital close to the scene of the shooting.<\/p>\n
Officers were called to reports of a crossbow shooting that took place at about 9.50am on Thursday at Manor Park student village. A 21-year-old suspect from Saudi Arabia is in police custody.<\/p>\n
In a police statement, Ch Supt Jon Groenen said: \u201cI appreciate that this incident will cause concern amongst our local communities, and I can reassure that we are not looking for anyone else in relation to this incident. We are working closely with the university as our investigation progresses.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe suspect was detained at the scene shortly after the incident and an investigation is now under way to establish the circumstances of the assault.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the victim remained in a serious condition in hospital and his next of kin were being supported by officers.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the university said a member of the campus safety team was seriously injured and receiving medical care. \u201cSurrey police are leading the investigation and we are giving them our full support,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n
Surrey police said there was a significant security presence at the scene but the university campus remained open.<\/p>\n
Officers appealed for anyone with information to contact the force or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former University of Surrey student has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a man was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-716716","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\/716716","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=716716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}