Victim killed in Surrey shooting has been shot before: IHIT
Posted August 30, 2017 2:40 pm.
Last Updated August 30, 2017 4:46 pm.
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SURREY (NEWS 1130) – Homicide investigators have confirmed the man gunned down in a Cloverdale driveway last night had been shot before in a gang-related incident.
Back in 2015, a then 20-year-old Pardeep Singh was identified as one of five men involved in shootings tied to low-level drug crime. He was shot but survived.
IHIT’s Cpl. Meghan Foster says he didn’t cooperate with police.
“And we engaged with him to offer assistance and also provide a ‘duty-to-warn’ notification to him that his life may be in danger.”
Singh was shot and killed in a car in the driveway of a Cloverdale home shortly before 9 p.m. Tuesday in the area of 64th Avenue and 166th Street.
People around the quiet neighbourhood report hearing several gunshots and a car racing away around that time. Police say they’re now looking for a vehicle that may be associated.
“That’s the scary part, it’s right beside me,” says Ryan who just moved into the neighbourhood. “I heard seven or eight gunshots go off. I was very surprised. I didn’t know what it was at first, then I ran outside and saw the whole neighbourhood lit up with cops.”
Investigators are now looking for a light coloured minivan which was seen leaving that area shortly after shots were fired.
Though the investigation is in its early stages, police believe this shooting to be targeted.
If you have any information, you’re asked to call Surrey RCMP at 604-599-0502. To remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS or visit www.solvecrime.ca.
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