Honda CRV occupants waited for Ripudaman Singh Malik before shooting, police say
CTV
Before Ripudaman Singh Malik was gunned down in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday, a white Honda CRV pulled up to the shooting scene. Homicide investigators say the occupants waited hours for him to arrive.
Hours before Ripudaman Singh Malik was gunned down in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday, a white Honda CRV pulled up to the shooting scene.
"The occupants were waiting for Mr. Malik," Sgt. David Lee of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said at a news conference Friday.
Authorities have obtained surveillance video showing the vehicle arriving at 8236 128th Street, a complex where Malik ran a business, at around 7 a.m.
He was fatally shot at 9:27 a.m.
A witness, who did not want to be identified, told CTV News he heard three gunshots, and ran to find Malik slumped in another vehicle with a single bullet wound in his neck.
The 75-year-old, who was one of two men acquitted in the notorious 1985 Air India bombings, died at the scene, despite the efforts of police to provide medical care.
Shortly after the shooting, authorities said the same Honda CRV was found fully engulfed in flames near 82nd Avenue and 122A Street, less than two kilometres away.
