The shooting victim who died after being found on a Surrey, B.C., roadside Tuesday morning has no links to drugs, gangs, or organized crime, police say.
Damon Michael Martin, 33, died in hospital several hours after being discovered lying on a road in the Panorama area of the city.
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.
The house has been identified as the probable crime scene but no arrests have been made.
Cpl. Dale Carr of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says new details are surfacing daily.
Around 50 RCMP officers, along with dog teams, cordoned off a wide area around the shooting location to investigate.
Carr says the incident was initially reported as a possible car-pedestrian accident.
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.
There have been dozens of shootings in Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley since Mid-January -- with more than 20 fatalities.
