One man is dead after being shot while in his vehicle Monday night in Newton.
Police in Surrey received reports of a shooting just before 5:30 p.m. on Monday (March 3) in the 7900-block of 120 Street in the Best Buy parking lot. Once on scene, police found the driver of a vehicle suffering from gunshot wounds.
According to a photographer on scene, the vehicle had crashed into a tree in the parking lot.
The man died on scene despite life-saving measures, police noted in a press release.
Shortly after the shooting, Delta Police officers received reports of a vehicle fire on 64 Avenue and Westview Drive in Delta. Whether the vehicle is connected to the shooting is yet to be determined.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) is investigating the incident, which marks the first homicide of the year in Surrey.
This is the first homicide confirmed in Surrey so far this year despite IHIT taking conduct of a Jan. 5 case where a manB次元官网网址檚 body was found inside an abandoned house that caught fire in the 9800-block of 138 Street.
B次元官网网址淚n 2024, there were nine homicides in Surrey. IHIT deployed 10 times but nine were confirmed homicides,B次元官网网址� said Sgt. Freda Fong, spokeswoman for IHIT.
Surrey had 12 homicides in 2023. In 2022 there were 21, and 10 in 2021. In 2020 there were 12 homicides; 21 in 2019 and 15 in 2018.
The most the city recorded in any given year was 25 in 2013, breaking the previous record of 21 in 2005.
Since IHIT took over investigating homicides from the Surrey RCMPB次元官网网址檚 serious crimes section in June 2003 it has to date cleared 206 of the total 364 homicide cases it has investigated in Surrey. That is a clearance rate of 56 per cent. These cases, according to IHIT, B次元官网网址渉ave been cleared by charge, recommended charge, or cleared otherwise.B次元官网网址�
As the investigation is in the early stages and continues, officers are appealing to the public for information. Anyone who has details on the shooting is asked to contact IHIT at 1-877-551-4448 or email ihitinfo@rcmp-grc.ca.
