Canadian media said the suspect may have deliberately targeted homeless people in Langley, southeast of Vancouver.
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Two people were killed and two others injured in a series of shootings on Monday (July 25th) in a town in western Canada, according to police, who shot the shooter dead. “I can confirm that four people were shot by what is believed to be a sniper”Langley City Police Chief Ghalib Bhayani said at a news conference.
Two did not survive, he continued, and an injured woman is in “critical condition”. The suspect was shot dead by law enforcement. “The identification of the victims and the suspect is in progress and we are trying to assess the link between them”added the police, who refuse to reveal the identity of the people.
According to Canadian media, the man may have targeted homeless people. The police “seeks to determine if (the victims) were indeed homeless”but is not yet able to confirm this, said David Lee of the Homicide Investigation Squad.
An alert message had been broadcast around 6:15 a.m. local time (3:15 p.m. French time) to the population, mentioning “several crime scenes in downtown Langley”a city of 130,000 inhabitants located about 40 kilometers southeast of Vancouver, British Columbia.
The authorities announced in this message to have had a “interaction with a suspect without knowing at this time if others were involved”. A second alert was sent an hour later, explaining that the suspect “was no longer a threat” and again asking people to stay away.