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Drug dealer shot behind taxi in Surrey parking lot

Postmedia has determined the identity of the victim, but has not yet released it as the family has not been notified

A man was shot dead in a taxicab at a strip mall on 108th Avenue near 148 Street in Surrey on Aug. 9, 2022.
108th Street near 148th Street, Surrey, Strip Mall on 9 August 2022 A man was shot dead in a taxi. Photo by Arlen Redekop /PNG

Bold shooting in Surrey where taxi driver was seriously injured on Tuesday.

His 30-year-old victim, who has a long criminal record, said a taxi pulled up at his chicken parking lot on his 14800 block on 108th Street. was targeted when : 20:00

Sally RCMP Cpl. Vanessa Mann said, "Both occupants of the vehicle were shot."

"The taxi driver was seriously injured and taken to hospital. Integrated Homicide Investigation Teams were called, she said. It resulted in a serious injury to my hand," Mann said.

A man was shot dead in a taxicab at a strip mall on 108th Avenue near 148 Street in Surrey on Aug. 9, 2022.
Man shot dead in strip mall taxi on 108th 2022 August 9, 2008, a thoroughfare near his 148th Street in Surrey. Photo courtesy of Arlen Redekop /PNG

Anyone with information please contact 1-877-551- 4448 or his IHIT at ihittipline@rcmp-grc.gc.ca.

The restaurant manager told The Post Media that her "staff were stressed" after the shocking shooting.

Postmedia has identified the victim, but has yet to release it as an IHIT Sergeant. Tim Pierotti said Tuesday afternoon that his family had not yet been notified.

He is believed to be involved in street-level drug trafficking. At the time of the shooting, he was in court on his three human trafficking charges, which were indicted in 2020, and on his two driving offenses from both Vancouver and Surrey. His criminal record dates back to his 2010.

In 2019, he was sentenced to 141 days in prison for human trafficking in Surrey. In 2017, he was sentenced to 60 days in prison for possession of stolen property and was also convicted of another case of assault with a weapon.

The shooting is not the first time a taxi driver has been put in danger.

On December 28, 2020, his 14-year-old Brothers Keepers associate Tekelwillis was shot dead after getting out of a taxi in Surrey. And in August 2008, James Edward O'Toole was shot dead in a targeted murder in the backseat of a taxi on Commercial Drive.

The latest murder occurred just three days after Brothers Keepers, a teenager with ties to his gang, was shot dead on his Canadian highway in Burnaby's Trance. His second man was also wounded in the 2:29 p.m. gunfire. Saturday near Kensington Viaduct.

A black Mercedes-Benz SUV fled the shooting and was found burning on his 1100 block of his drive on the East Lawn of Burnaby about two hours later.

IHIT identified his deceased teenager as Meysam Zaki, 18. Investigators did not release the name of the injured man.

Just a week ago he was on July 30th when there was a shooting in a parking lot at South Surrey Athletic Park, killing two youths and seriously injuring a third. suffered. IHIT said on Aug. 5 that a suspect had been arrested but had not yet been charged with the killing, which was described as having "ties to gang and drug activity."

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