Police are now giving us a little more information after a border officer was shot this afternoon shortly before two at the Peace Arch crossing.
The woman was confronted by a man in a van with Washington State plates.
Surrey RCMP Corporal Bert Paquet says the motive is unknown.
“We’re working on that with all available resources at the scene to try to establish exactly what the sequence of events that took place between the arrival of this individual to the Peace Arch crossing and subsequently what lead to the events that unfolded after that”
He says the man turned the gun on himself before he could be taken into custody.
The injured border guard was airlifted to Royal Columbian Hospital.
Her condition is not known.
Delta’s Brian White says he arrived just in time to see several border guards running with their hands on their guns.
And he believes he heard the suicidal shot of the gunman…but not the shot that injured the border guard.
“It’s incredible…border guards everywhere, and one girl was screaming and then they just closed everything….closed everything down and brought the tape out”
White says he thought he was making a quick trip to the U-S and a bottle of wine.
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