ONE man has been arrested by the Lower Mainland District Emergency Response Team (LMD ERT) and Surrey Police Service (SPS) following an overnight shots fired incident at a suite in a hotel located in the 12400-block of King George Boulevard.

At about 10 p.m. on Tuesday, June 24, SPS frontline officers received a request to check on the wellbeing of a man staying in a suite of a hotel located in the 12400-block of King George Boulevard. SPS officers attended and while trying to have him come out of his suite, determined that the man had a firearm and was barricading himself inside.

The LMD ERT was called to assist and SPS officers evacuated nearby residents of other suites. At about 12:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 25, officers began to hear gunshots being fired from inside the suite, with the shots being fired towards the outside.

The man was arrested shortly before 1 a.m. by the LMD ERT and the Lower Mainland District Integrated Police Dog Services. He was transported to hospital for evaluation, where he remains in custody.

SPS’s Frontline Investigative Support Team (FLIST) has assumed conduct of the investigation.