Woman found with gunshot wound in Surrey dies

SURREY (NEWS 1130) – A homicide investigation is underway in Surrey after officers, who were responding to reports of a single-vehicle crash, found a woman in her 30s suffering from an “apparent” gunshot wound.

The Surrey RCMP says officers were called out to an alleyway in the Newton area of 75A Avenue near 137th Street just after 5:30 a.m. Thursday.

When they arrived, officers found the woman with “critical injuries.” Despite first responder efforts, the woman died.

“Early indications are that there was another vehicle involved in this, and so we’re asking anyone with dashcam video and video from their own residence to please contact IHIT if you have that,” says Sgt. Frank Jang with the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team.

“We don’t believe this was a random act. The circumstance, what little we know of, leads us to believe that this was, perhaps, targeted. Certainly not random,” Jang adds.

What exactly led up to the shooting and what happened before the crash are still unclear.

“How the call came in was, it was reported as a single-vehicle collision in that area. And so when officers got there — I don’t think they were expecting to come upon a homicide scene — so when they came upon the vehicle, they looked inside, they found a female body. They saw the gunshot wound and immediately contact their superiors and contacted us.”

The woman has not been positively identified but it’s believed the vehicle she was in was hers. The owner of the vehicle has a residence listed in the area where the woman died, Jang notes.

Investigators are gathering more evidence and are looking video surveillance that may help them.

Anyone with information about what happened is asked to contact IHIT at 1.877.551.IHIT (4448). You can also email IHIT at ihitinfo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca.

To make an anonymous report, contact Crime Stoppers at 1.800.222.TIPS (8477).

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