{"id":73282,"date":"2026-06-03T20:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/73282\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T20:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:15:20","slug":"18-year-old-who-was-shot-dead-in-vehicle-in-surrey-identified-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/73282\/","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old who was shot dead in vehicle in Surrey identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Deol was found in the area <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/man-homicide-surrey-9.7218429\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:of 138 Street and 62 Avenue;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;of 138 Street and 62 Avenue&quot;}\" class=\"link \">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Tuesday, Sgt. Freda Fong with the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) said police were releasing Deol&#8217;s identity as they work to understand his lifestyle and activities leading up to the fatal shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No suspects have been named, but police believe the attack is targeted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fong said police are working closely with Deol&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;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,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;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,&#8221; Fong added.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Surrey police say officers found a man suffering gunshot wounds in Surrey's Newton area just after midnight Sunday morning.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1bf0e704ce4005e6a953ccd8c0e2ae00.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Shane MacKichan)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Deol&#8217;s death marked Surrey&#8217;s 13th homicide of the year, according to the Surrey Police Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Homicide investigators have identified a young man who was recently shot dead in a vehicle, which subsequently hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[17789,29716,11937,14567,97],"class_list":["post-73282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-freda-fong","tag-gaurav-deol","tag-ihit","tag-integrated-homicide-investigation-team","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73282","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=73282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}