Two men are in custody after what police believe was another extortion-related shooting in Surrey early Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
The Surrey Police Service says officers responded to reports of shots fired at a home on 56 Avenue near King George Boulevard.<\/p>\n
\u201cSPS officers arrived and confirmed that damage to the exterior of the residence had been caused by gun shots,\u201d police described.<\/p>\n
Though several people were inside the residence at the time, no one was reported injured.<\/p>\n
Officers reportedly spotted a suspect vehicle near the home and arrested two men.<\/p>\n
\u201cBased on the initial information, it is believed that this shooting is extortion related with potential linkages to other investigations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thursday morning\u2019s shooting is one of dozens reported in Surrey and the Lower Mainland this year, targeting the South Asian community and business owners.<\/p>\n
Police say the BC Extortion Task Force is investigating.<\/p>\n
If you witnessed the shooting or have information or cctv or dashcam video to share, you\u2019re asked to contact the SPS non-emergency line at 604-599-0502 and quote file number 25-95384 (SP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men are in custody after what police believe was another extortion-related shooting in Surrey early Thursday morning.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":343972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-343971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115465079053924788","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}