Roadside discovery called homicide
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is investigating Surrey's fifth homicide of 2013 after a man's body was found on the side of a road in South Surrey on Monday morning.
Cpl. Adam MacIntosh said police were called at 9: 20 a.m. to a grassy area in the 12300block of Colebrook Road, a rural area north of Highway 99 on the Surrey-Delta border, where the body was discovered.
The identity of the man is still unknown and the cause of death has not yet been released.
"We are in the early stages of this investigation and we are working to find out if this latest homicide is related to gang activity," MacIntosh said in a statement.
It has been a violent month in Surrey, after four men were murdered in a spate of shootings that took place in a 48-hour period.
Manjot Dhillon was shot on Jan. 13, while Edward McGive-ron and Geordie Carlow were killed the same day. On the morning of Jan. 15, Manjinder Hairan was murdered. The killings of Dhillon and Hairan have been linked to gang activity.
Monday's discovery wasn't the first time that a body has been found on Colebrook Road.
In January 2007, the body of 15-year-old Amrita (Jyoti) Kaur Sidhu was found just east of 152nd St., two days after the teenager walked away from hospital.
In 2001, the body of Angie Williams, a Vancouver sex trade worker, was found dumped on the same country road. The woman died of a drug overdose.
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