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Three people are dead following an incident in Maple Ridge, B.C., overnight.
The Independent Investigations Office of B.C., which investigates police-involved incidents, said officers have been called to a home on 239th Street and 118A Avenue.
The agency said the initial investigation found that the first person appears to have died from a self-inflicted wound around 11 p.m. on Wednesday.
When police arrived, two other people were also found dead, the agency said.
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Two burned-out vehicles sit in front of one of the houses that is behind police tape on Thursday morning.
Neighbour Allen Deacon-Carriere told Global News that his girlfriend woke him up around 10:45 p.m., saying she had heard a gunshot.
“After that, I woke up and I heard five more similar-sounding gunshots,” he said.
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Deacon-Carriere then said he heard a woman screaming for someone to call 911, which he did and when he ran downstairs, he looked out the window and saw a car on fire.
He is a mechanic, so he knew one of the cars was about to explode, Deacon-Carriere explained.
“Then the police came and the two cars blew up and it was just really crazy,” he added.
No other information has been released.
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