Brothers Michael and Cory Lal are thought to be among the victims of a multiple homicide that left six people dead in a small apartment in Surrey, B.C., on Friday, the CBC has learned.

Fireplace repairman Ed Schellenberg appears to have been one of six victims found dead in a Surrey apartment Friday.
(Family photo)

The bodies of the Lal brothers, both in their early twenties, were allegedly recovered from the grisly scene.

It also claimed the life of fireplace repairman Ed Schellenberg, who might have been caught in the middle of what police are describing as a targeted attack.

The Schellenberg family says they will be making a statement Tuesday at an RCMP news conference in Surrey.

However, Cpl. Dale Carr of the RCMP's Integrated Homicide Investigation Team wouldn't identify any of the victims Monday.

"Our [team] is still making some identifications and firming up a few things before we want to go on the record about who people were," Carr told CBC News on Monday morning.

Carr said that the homicides appeared to be targeted and not a random act, but that investigators have not established any links to any gangs or organized crime.
 
Throughout Monday, family members came and went at the Lal family home in Surrey's Fraser Heights neighbourhood.

The home is owned by their father, Mike Lal, a Fijian Canadian who works for Frito Lay as a sales rep and lives with his second wife and family, including two half-siblings of the dead men.

Nobody at the family home wanted to talk to reporters.

Officials from the coroner's office remove one of six bodies found inside a Surrey apartment on Friday.
(CBC)

Neighbours couldn't believe the news that Michael Lal was thought to be among the dead. He was the owner of a white Nissan truck that was towed from the crime scene located in the Surrey neighbourhood of Whalley, on Sunday.

"He was a very nice guy, always willing to lend a hand," said Therese Hawkins.

So far, the only information about the victims that police have confirmed is that all six were men and that they span a variety of ethnicities.

But sources close to the investigation have told CBC that five of the six men killed were allegedly part of a mid-level gang, who were involved in the drug trade.

Such gangs lack real structure and that is what makes them so dangerous, the sources said. They are often violently vying for power with other shadowy groups, the sources told CBC.

Meanwhile, Schellenberg, a father of two children, and in his forties when he died, appears to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time.

A tribute to the repairman can be found on the personal website of his nephew, Joel Defries, a youth pastor in White Rock, B.C.