Police have identified the victims in a Richmond homicide as a father and his 13-year-old son.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says the 46-year-old man and his son were found murdered in their Richmond home Thursday night (Nov. 30.).
IHIT has since taken over the investigation, working with Richmond RCMP, the RCMP Forensic Identification Service and the BC Coroners Service.
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Sgt. Timothy Pierotti said Richmond RCMP had been called to the home in the 6200-block of Goldsmith Drive around 10:30 p.m. for a report of a 鈥渟uspicious circumstance.鈥 Asked on what the circumstance was, Pierotti said he didn鈥檛 have that exact information and that鈥檚 鈥渏ust how the information was relayed to me.鈥
But he added he believed it was a family member that called 911 about the deaths.
It was a 鈥渟hort window鈥 in which the father and son were killed, he noted, as other family members were believed to be home as recently as 8 p.m.
Pierotti said that while the investigation is in its early stages, 鈥渆vidence suggests that this was a targeted incident and the investigators are still working to determine a motive.鈥 He added that he couldn鈥檛 get into the specifics, but whoever is the suspect went to the home with the intention of killing someone.
However, until a motive or suspect is identified, Pierotti can鈥檛 comment on exactly what the intent was.
Police have not said how the two were killed.
He said the killing is not believed to be linked to gangs or drugs, adding that 鈥渢o the best of my knowledge, they were not known to police.鈥
IHIT is not yet releasing the names of the victims, with Pierotti saying that since it鈥檚 the weekend they wanted to give the community and the students at the son鈥檚 school a chance to hear from the 鈥渞ight source.鈥
The man and his son both lived in the home, which is near the area of the Rocky View Playground and the London Sports Fields. The rest of the family was not home at the time of the killing.
鈥淲e are asking anyone who may have observed anything suspicious in the area of the Rocky View Playground or the adjoining pathways between 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. on November 30 to contact IHIT,鈥 Pierotti said.
鈥淎lso, if you were driving or parked in the area and have dash-camera footage, please contact IHIT immediately.鈥
IHIT is asking anyone with information regarding the investigation, to contact the IHIT Information Line at 1-877-551-IHIT (4448) or by email at ihitinfo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca.