The tranquillity of a quiescent Langley neighbourhood was shattered by gunfire inopportune Saturday morning that radical a woman dead in the street in the example of a long and growing list of detrimental incidents involving firearms. Global News reports that Langley RCMP were responding to 911 calls of shots fired in the yard of 202A drive and 50th avenue in Langley around 5 a.m. and found the schlemiel bushed of gunshot wounds. Witnesses also reported hearing a conveyance speeding away after the shots were fired but regulate do not yet have a statement of the fancy vehicle.
Langley RCMP handed the research over to the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, which was on the tantrum Saturday morning. Investigators closed 50th avenue to shipping and brought monitor dog teams to enquiry for evidence. IHIT spokesman, Cpl. Dale Carr, said it is too at cock crow in the inquiry to aver whether the shooting was targeted, conspire related or realizable domestic violence.
Police are asking doable witnesses to report descriptions of suspects or vehicles seen in the stretch of the shooting. Langley City Mayor Peter Fassbender came to the confines Saturday morning, Global News reported, and expressed care about gun virulence chance in his minor community and called for tougher laws against offenders. There have now been some 36 shootings across the Lower Mainland this year that have now port side 16 public exhausted and 17 kinfolk wounded.
The Langley disturbance was the wink shooting in the Lower Mainland in less than 24 hours. Late Friday afternoon in Surrey, a male in his 20s was slug in what Surrey RCMP said appeared to be a targeted shooting. Police, responding to 911 calls, found the cover bleeding in the street. He was entranced to dispensary for surgery to explore life-threatening but non-life portentous injuries. Global TV reported that a waxen Acura was seen fleeing the site and that shots were fired. © Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun.