The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has identified the fatal shooting victim from a Friday shooting in Surrey.
IHIT is identifying the victim as 26-year-old Jaskaran Birring of Chilliwack in an effort to advance the investigation, an IHIT release said Monday (Dec. 1).
“Birring had previous interactions with the police and was believed to be involved in the drug trade,” the release noted.
Police responded to a call of a shooting in the 10400-block of 152 Street around 11:40 p.m. on Friday (Nov. 28), where they found a man suffering from life-threatening injuries, and despite life-saving measures, he died at the scene.
Police do not believe that the shooting was random or connected to the ongoing extortion crisis in Surrey, an earlier release said.
IHIT has taken conduct of this investigation and continues to work in partnership with the Surrey Provincial Operational Support Unit, the Surrey Police Service, the Integrated Forensic Identification Services and the BC Coroners Service.
Early indications suggest this was a targeted incident related to organized crime, IHIT said Monday, adding investigators are working diligently to determine the circumstances surrounding the homicide and to identify all parties involved.
Approximately 15 minutes after the shooting, a white Dodge Ram pickup truck was located fully engulfed in flames in the area of 136 Street and 115 Avenue in Surrey, and IHIT investigators are seeking information and video evidence from any witnesses who may have been at either location on November 28 between 9 p.m. and midnight.
Anyone with information regarding this investigation is urged to call the IHIT information line at 1-877-551-IHIT (4448) or by email at ihitinfo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca