Surrey domestic dispute leaves 2 with gunshot wounds
CBC News
Posted: Dec 21, 2012 8:45 AM PT
Last Updated: Dec 21, 2012 9:41 PM PT
Two people are in hospital with gunshot wounds after a domestic dispute in south Surrey early Friday morning.
Surrey RCMP Cpl. Bert Paquet says a woman in her mid 30s was shot twice in front of her 10-year-old son just after midnight. She suffered non-life threatening injuries.
The shooter, who is thought to be known to the woman, fled the scene.
He was stopped by police a short time later near King George Highway and 24th Street, when he turned the gun on himself.
Two people are in hospital with gunshot wounds after a domestic dispute in south Surrey early Friday morning. Surrey RCMP Cpl. Bert Paquet says the shooter fled in a vehicle and turned the gun on himself when confronted by police. (CBC)He was taken to hospital, where he remains in critical condition.
Paquet says the 10-year-old boy was not harmed but is quite shaken.
The Independent Investigations Office has taken over the investigation into the self-inflicted shooting.
Four IIO investigators have been deployed and are currently working to identify police and civilian witnesses.
Paquet says police do not appear to have fired any shots.
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