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Three dead, including suspect, in Langley shooting — the latest in B.C.'s string of violence (msn.com)
Three dead, including suspect, in Langley shooting — the latest in B.C.'s string of violence
Three people are dead, including the suspect, after a shooting in Langley, B.C. involving transient victims on Monday. One person is seriously injured, police said. The deadly shootings started about six hours before RCMP issued a cellphone alert warning t
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Emergency Alert to All Citizens of Greater Vancouver - Langley Shooting
Three dead, including suspect, in Langley shooting — the latest in B.C.'s string of violence
Three people are dead, including the suspect, after a shooting in Langley, B.C. involving transient victims on Monday.
© Provided by National PostA vehicle with bullet holes visible on the windshield is seen after authorities alerted residents of multiple shootings targeting transient victims in the Vancouver suburb of Langley, British Columbia, Canada July 25, 2022.
One person is seriously injured, police said.
The deadly shootings started about six hours before RCMP issued a cellphone alert warning the public.
RCMP Sgt. David Lee says the alert, which was issued around 6:20 a.m., was done “at the appropriate time”.
Two men were found dead, a woman was critically hurt and another man was shot in the leg at separate scenes around the Metro Vancouver town, with the first shooting taking place around midnight.
RCMP say the emergency response team found a man matching a description of the suspect not far from where another man was found injured with a gunshot wound to his leg.
During an interaction with the suspect, police say the suspect was shot and killed.
The two dead were found at Creekstone Place, a supportive housing facility for people transitioning out of homelessness, and at a Langley City bus loop.
The woman was found several blocks away.
“At this time we don’t know the motive behind this deadly incident, nor if there was any relationship between the deceased suspect and the victims,” B.C. RCMP Chief Supt. Ghalib Bhayani, the Vancouver Sun reported.
There are “several victims” and “several different scenes,” Langley RCMP said in a statement said.
© Jesse Winter/ReutersPolice officers work at the site after authorities alerted residents of multiple shootings targeting transient victims in the Vancouver suburb of Langley, British Columbia, Canada July 25, 2022.
There were also numerous reports of shots fired into closed or unoccupied businesses during the incident, the release says.
Police were urging residents to stay out of the area. Two blaring emergency alerts were sent out. The first, at 6:20 Monday morning warned residents and included a description of the suspect: a Caucasian man with dark hair, wearing brown Carhart coveralls and a blue and green camo shirt with a red logo on the right sleeve. The second alert, at 7:20 a.m. said that a suspect was “no longer a threat” and police later said a man they arrested was thought to be responsible for the shootings.
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“We are asking the public to stay out of the following areas: 200 Street and Langley Bypass; Parking lot of Cascades Casino located at Fraser Highway and 204 Street, Langley Bus Loop located a Logan Avenue and Glover Road,” the statement continued.
Investigators believe the suspect acted alone.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said they had been deployed to Langley.
Police were seen setting up forensics tents in the area.
A vehicle appeared to have been shot at and had a bullet hole through the window in a parking lot near 200 Street and the Langley Bypass, the Vancouver Sun reported. Police had cordoned off other nearby areas, including one scene where a backpack was toppled over and personal belongings, like a pair of shoes, were in the middle of the street.
A video on Twitter showed a heavy police presence near 200th Street outside Willowbrook Mall.
The Independent Investigations Office, which investigates any incidents of serious harm or death that may have been caused by police, has been notified.
This comes only a day after two people were killed in Whistler, B.C, a popular vacation spot for locals and tourists. The shooting took place near the Sundial Hotel, the RCMP said in a statement.
Two people were later arrested.
A burned car was also discovered by police, however, it was not clear if it was related to the shooting. Police later revealed they believed the shooting was targeted, in relation to the Lower Mainland gang conflict.
Meninder Dhaliwal, 29, a Brothers Keeper gangster, and his friend Satindera Gill, were the victims of the fatal shooting, the Vancouver Sun reported on Sunday.
Earlier in July, another violent incident took place in B.C. when businessman Ripudaman Singh Malik was killed.
© Provided by National PostIn 2005, Malik, left, was acquitted of murder and conspiracy in two bombs targeting Air India planes.
Malik, who had been previously acquitted in the 1985 Air India bombing, was in his car when he was fatally shot.
A suspect vehicle was identified by police.
At the end of June, twin brothers Mathew and Isaac Auchterlonie were killed in a shootout with police after an armed robbery at a bank in Saanich, B.C.
“The motive behind the armed robbery and subsequent exchange of gunfire with police has not yet been determined,” Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit said in a statement. “We believe there could be people out that may have more information about the brothers, their recent activities and travels and we need those people to come forward and speak to police.”
With additional reporting by The Canadian Press
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Langley, British Columbia (city)
The City of Langley, commonly referred to as Langley City, or just Langley, is a municipality in the Metro Vancouver Regional District in British Columbia, Canada. It lies directly east of Surrey, adjacent to the Cloverdale area, and is surrounded elsewhere by the Township of Langley, bordered by its neighbourhoods of Willowbrook to the north, Murrayville to the east, and Brookswood and Fern Ridge to the south.
Early European settlement in the area was known as "Innes Corners" (after homesteader Adam Innes); in 1911, the area became known as "Langley Prairie", part of the Township of Langley a.k.a. Langley Township since 1873. Twentieth-century improvements in transportation access, including the construction of the British Columbia Electric Railway in 1910, Fraser Highway in the 1920s, and Pattullo Bridge in 1937, profoundly impacted the area, transforming it from rural into the main urban and commercial core of the Township.
In turn, this birthed the need for upgraded and new amenities, especially with respect to health, infrastructure, safety and sanitation.
The municipal government, however, refused to finance these projects as it bowed, instead, to politically influential farming communities and smaller, mostly rural, business centres, like Fort Langley, Milner and Murrayville, that viewed such spending as unnecessary.
Talk of secession began in Langley Prairie in the 1930s, as a result. Headed by a panel of important residents and businesspersons, including Richard Langdon, president of the Langley Board of Trade, the push for independence came to a head in the 1950s.
Specifically, two issues decided Langley's future. Street lights, which Langley Prairie argued were not only needed for safety but also progress, but on which reeve George Brooks declared "not a nickel" would be spent. As well, Langley Prairie's belief that it did not have the political sway or its fair share of municipal services that it deserved relative to its local tax contribution.
Langley Prairie by now constituted 20% of the Township's tax base.
A referendum on secession was therefore held in September, 1954. It passed with over 85% of the vote. Langley Prairie officially seceded and became the City of Langley on March 15, 1955.
