July 05, 2017 - 5:21 AM
SURREY, B.C. - A man has been seriously injured in what RCMP in Surrey, B.C., say appears to be a targeted attacked.
A news release from Staff Sgt. Dale Carr says the victim, in his 30s, was shot several times on Tuesday evening, while inside a sushi restaurant in Surrey's Guildford neighbourhood.
Another man was arrested a short distance away.
Carr says Surrey's serious crime investigators are trying to determine how he may have been involved in the attack.
Police also confirmed the victim is known to them.
Carr says it's too early to tell if the shooting is connected to others that have occurred recently in Surrey or around the Lower Mainland, or if the violence is linked to gangs or drugs.
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