Deadly shooting near Langley Sportsplex

By Martin MacMahon and Denise Wong

Posted April 21, 2021 10:51 am.

Last Updated April 21, 2021 9:41 pm.

LANGLEY (NEWS 1130) – Police are condemning a shooting in broad daylight, which has left a male victim dead near the Langley Sportsplex.

Sgt. Frank Jang with the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) says it happened just after 9 a.m. Wednesday.

“There’s a skating rink here, there’s a children’s playground. There’s a lot of activity going on … For such a brazen shooting to happen in a public area is not only concerning, but is also infuriating,” he said.

The victim was a man in his 40s and was well-known to police.

Police believe it was a targeted shooting.

“Given what we know of who we believe our victim is, somebody this morning set out to kill him. We’re confident in that,” Jang said.

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Police are looking for dashcam footage from the area of the Langley Sportsplex and from Riverside Drive in Port Coquitlam, where a grey Dodge pickup was lit on fire shortly after the shooting.

This was the third deadly shooting — and the second during daylight hours — in Metro Vancouver this week.

On Monday, a man was shot to death near the basketball court at Coquitlam’s Town Centre Park on Pinetree Way. It happened at around 6:30 p.m., when police say there were between 40 and 50 people at the park.

IHIT believes that shooting was targeted and may have been linked to gangs.

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On Saturday night, a 31-year-old Abbotsford man was shot and killed outside a popular restaurant in Vancouver’s Coal Harbour.

Police believe that was also a targeted shooting.

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