Gang war continues with drive-by shooting in Surrey

A suspected crack house in Surrey was sprayed with bullets Thursday night, but nobody was injured in the Lower Mainland's latest shooting.

It was the fifth shooting in Surrey and the eighth across the Lower Mainland since Tuesday evening in what police describe as a violent turf war for control of the region's illegal drug trade.

Mounties said residents living near 125th Street and 62A Avenue reported hearing shots just before 9:30 p.m. and seeing a dark van speeding away after the shooting.

Surrey RCMP Insp. Darren Lench said police found some evidence of drug activity inside the rental home and a lot of shell casings on the road outside, but did not find the vehicle and made no arrests.

He said the incident might be connected to a series of tit-for-tat shootings related to the local drug trade.

"It just seems at times, an eye for an eye, so if it happens in one respect, they somehow have to pay back the other way," said Lench.