Police: Several people shot dead, including a boy, in southeastern Washington

Several people – including a boy – were injured after a shootout Monday afternoon in southeastern British Columbia. Initially, the police announced that six people had been shot, but in a new update, Monday, five.

Four men and the boy were shot dead near the Barry Farm Recreation Center at around 2:30 pm, police said. The men and the boy are conscious and breathe. They were taken to the hospital.

Later on Monday police said the boy and three of the men had been treated for life-threatening injuries. But a man had wounds putting his life in danger.

The police are looking for a suspicious gray or silver vehicle that has run from Sumner Road to Martin Luther King Avenue Southeast.

This is what the vehicle we are looking for looks like captured on surveillance images.

Below, a map of the area where the shooting took place.

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