Friends and family mourn woman dead in Surrey hostage-taking
Posted April 1, 2019 4:49 pm.
Last Updated April 1, 2019 8:01 pm.
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SURREY (NEWS 1130) – We’re finding out more about the woman who died last week in Surrey at a home near Holland Park in a hostage-taking situation.
Nona McEwan is being remembered by friends on a GoFundMe page as a kind, giving woman who would do anything to help the people she knew.
McEwan was injured during what police called a hostage situation inside a home on 98A Avenue near 132nd Street on Thursday.
Neighbouring homes were evacuated and the Lower Mainland Emergency Response Team was called to the scene.
RCMP say they made “multiple efforts to engage the barricaded male and a female hostage within the home in order to peacefully resolve the situation.”
Officers entered the home on Friday morning. After a confrontation, RCMP say the man was shot to death.
McEwan was taken to hospital with serious injuries but later died.
She leaves behind three children: 26-year-old Tyler, 22-year-old Brandon, and 16-year-old Jenna.
The community is hoping to raise at least $15,000 to help the family with funeral expenses and other unforeseen costs.
B.C.’s police watchdog is now looking into what happened.
With files from Martin MacMahon and Estefania Duran.
