Crime as rampant this week in Surrey as the city saw a bank held up, a store employee at the Bay in Guildford get stabbed by a robber, a shooting that sent two men to hospital and then finally a cab being shot up early Thursday morning.
SURREY – Crime as rampant this week in Surrey as the city saw a bank held up, a store employee at the Bay in Guildford get stabbed by a robber, a shooting that sent two men to hospital and then finally a cab being shot up early Thursday morning.
It was the passenger shot inside a Surrey taxi who called police to report the crime.
RCMP responded to multiple reports of shots fired around 108 Avenue and 143 Street around 5 a.m., and found a taxi cab with the passenger side windows blown out, reported CTV news.
Around the same time, a call came in from a 40-year-old man saying he’d been shot in the cab, and was headed to the hospital.
That man was treated in the ER at Surrey Memorial Hospital although for a gunshot wound to the leg, and has since been released.
“[The] investigation revealed that several gunshots had been fired at the taxi, shattering the window and grazing the male in the leg,” said Sgt. B.M. McColl in a statement.
The cab driver was miraculously uninjured, and could be seen speaking to Mounties at the hospital.
Early reports indicate that the taxi was shot at by someone in another vehicle.
The cab was towed away from the scene shortly before 8 a.m.
Surrey Major Crimes is now investigating, and say the incident appears targeted.
In a shooting last weekend, Police have not yet identified any suspects or a motive for that which landed two men in hospital with serious injuries.
Police have identified one victim — a Surrey man in his early 20s – but still don’t know who the other victim is.
Both remain in hospital, one with life-threatening injuries. The pair were dropped off at a local hospital, suffering from gunshot wounds, shortly before 11 p.m. Saturday.
Police ask anyone with information about these shootings to contact the Surrey RCMP at 604599-0502.
