A passenger shot inside a Surrey taxi Thursday morning 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.

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.

With a report from CTV Morning Live’s Sheila Scott