Police are on scene in Surrey
investigating a brazen daylight drive-by shooting in a residential
neighbourhood.
Mounties say two people are
in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Surrey RCMP was called to
86th Avenue and Prestige Place around 3 p.m., where witnesses describe hearing
multiple gunshots.
“I heard a car drive by and
it sounded like fireworks, it was like a rapid shooting, and we just came out
and saw all the debris on the ground,” said neighbour Samatha Wyse.
Wyse said bullet shells and
shredded tire material were left in the street afterwards, and that police also
told her one of the weapons was an automatic weapon.
A nearby parked vehicle
appears to have also been struck by a stray bullet and has a smashed-out
window.ol
Caught on tapeice were called to the
Security video
shot in the area appears to have captured the incident.
On the video, a silver pickup
truck and white sedan can be seen driving towards one another, then appear to
collide.
Two suspects dressed in dark
clothing get out of the truck, and at least one of them appears to begin
shooting an automatic weapon.
The white sedan and truck
then drive off in opposite directions.
A short time later, police
and firefighters were called to nearby Port Kells where a pickup truck with its
licence plates removed was found engulfed in flames.
Mounties confirm it was one
of the two vehicles involved in the shooting, and add they believe the incident
was targeted.
Reference: http://globalnews.ca/news/3554947/police-respond-to-brazen-daytime-shooting-in-surrey/
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