A man discovered shot on a roadside in Surrey, B.C., on Tuesday morning has died in hospital.
According to Surrey RCMP, the man stumbled through bushes after leaving a house on 132nd St. where he had been shot. He was found wounded at 132nd St. and Highway 10 at around 8:45 a.m., and was taken to hospital by air ambulance.
Around 50 RCMP officers, along with dog teams, have cordoned off a wide area around the shooting location. Originally, the incident was reported as a possible car-pedestrian accident.
Surrey RCMP have not said if the shooting is gang related, or if it was a targeted or random attack. Police say the victim was in his 30s.
The man was pronounced dead in hospital at around 10:15 a.m. Investigators from the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team were deployed to the scene of the shooting.
A witness told CTV News she heard one shot fired.
Earlier Tuesday, Burnaby RCMP found a car surrounded by bullet casings near Rumble St. and Patterson Ave., but there was no sign of a victim -- or any indication that anyone had been hurt.
Dozens of gang-related and other shootings in recent months have put crime at the centre of the 2009 provincial election. Voting takes place today.
