Homicide investigators have identified a suspect vehicle related to the shooting of Ravinder Samra.
Samra was known to police and they believe this was a targeted shooting associated to the BC Gang Conflict. Through extensive video canvassing, IHIT has identified a suspect vehicle, described as a black 2021 Hyundai Santa Fe, which was parked in the hours leading up to the homicide on the west-side of the 8100-block of Minler Road, with the suspects inside.
“Investigators have learned that multiple pedestrians were walking on Minler Road in the time leading up to the homicide,” said Sergeant Timothy Pierotti of IHIT. “We’re asking anyone who was walking on Minler Road on the afternoon of July 27, 2023, who has yet to speak with police, to contact IHIT immediately.”
On July 27, 2023 at 5:42 p.m., the Richmond RCMP received multiple reports of shots fired in the 8000-block of Minler Road, Richmond. Richmond RCMP frontline officers and BC Emergency Health Services (EHS) attended and located a man, later identified as 36-year old Samra, suffering from gun shot wounds.
A short time later, Richmond RCMP and Richmond Fire Department were called to reports of a vehicle found engulfed in flames in the 12000-block of Blundell Road. IHIT took conduct of the investigation.
Samra was the subject of two public safety warnings from the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of British Columbia in the years before his death as someone who posed “a significant threat” to the public due to their involvement in the ongoing gang conflict.
He survived an allegedly gang-related shooting in 2015, and his bother Amanpreet Samra was gunned down in South Vancouver earlier this year.
IHIT investigators are asking for any witnesses, or anyone with dashcam video who drove on Minler Road on July 27, 2023 between 12 p.m. and 6 p.m., or the area of the 12000-block of Blundell Road from July 27, 2023 between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m., to contact the IHIT Information Line at 1-877-551-IHIT (4448) or by email at [email protected].
