{"id":175074,"date":"2026-08-20T02:43:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/175074\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T02:43:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:43:54","slug":"man-critically-injured-in-targeted-maple-ridge-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/175074\/","title":{"rendered":"Man critically injured in targeted Maple Ridge shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy Staff<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted August 19, 2026 1:04 pm<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated August 19, 2026 9:14 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A man has been critically injured in an overnight shooting in the Metro Vancouver community of Maple Ridge.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787193833_367_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police say in a statement that the shooting took place around 10 p.m. Tuesday and they do believe it was targeted.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787193834_644_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responding to reports of shots at a home in the 11400 block of 236 Street found the wounded 56-year-old man in a vehicle outside.<\/p>\n<p>Maple Ridge RCMP say its Serious Crime Unit has taken over the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>No motive has been determined and no suspect information has been released.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The victim, who is known to police, remains in hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking anyone who witnessed the shooting or has dashcam footage of the area around the time of the attack to contact investigators.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 19, 2026 1:04 pm Updated August 19, 2026 9:14 pm 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50286,17,47,6873],"class_list":["post-175074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-bc-crime","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}