A North Vancouver man is in hospital after being gunned down in Surrey on Sunday night.
Surrey RCMP received a 9-1-1 call just after 9:30 p.m. from a woman reporting that a man had been shot in the driveway of a home on 107 Avenue near 142 Street in Surrey's Whalley neighbourhood.
Police found the man with what appeared to be at least one gunshot wound in his chest/abdomen area, according to Cpl. Bert Paquet, Surrey RCMP spokesman.
B.C. Ambulance Service paramedics rushed the victim to Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster. By Monday afternoon, he was listed in serious but stable condition.
The 31-year-old victim is known to police, Paquet said, and the shooting was targeted. But unlike most targeted shootings, this one doesn't appear to be gang related, Paquet said.
"We're familiar with both the victim and the residence he was at. Because of that, we do believe this is not a random incident but we're still trying to clarify exactly why he was targeted by this shooting and exactly who was responsible for it," he said. "The people we have spoken to as well as the victim - although known to police - are not associated to gangs or organized crime or anything like that."
After interviewing witnesses, neighbours and canvassing the area for video surveillance footage, investigators hadn't yet come up with a suspect or motive. That's something police are hoping to glean from the victim who hadn't been formally interviewed yet, Paquet said.
"We spoke to him very briefly (Sunday) before he went into surgery. He's been in and out of surgery since," Paquet said. "As soon as he's no longer going for medical procedures and he's not sedated, we'll have officers talking to him and see if he can shed some light as to what happened and why."
At press time, the name of the shooting victim hadn't been released.
