It is not yet known if the people have died. But several shootings that hit the Canadian city of Vancouver claimed several victims on Monday morning. “There were multiple victims and multiple shootings,” Rebecca Parslow, spokeswoman for the Canadian police in Langley, near Vancouver, told AFP.
“A man is in custody,” she added, adding that police were investigating whether other suspects were involved. According to Canadian media, the man may have deliberately targeted homeless people in the city.
Several crime scenes
An alert message had been broadcast around 6:15 a.m. local time (1:15 p.m. GMT) to the population, mentioning “several crime scenes in downtown Langley”, a city of 130,000 inhabitants located about forty kilometers to the southeast. of Vancouver, British Columbia. The authorities indicated in this message to have had an “interaction with a suspect without knowing for the moment if others were involved”.
A second alert was sent an hour later explaining that the suspect “was no longer a threat” and again asking the public to stay away. The initial alert message described a Caucasian man, with dark hair, wearing a brown jumpsuit and a blue and green t-shirt with a red logo on the right sleeve.