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One man dead after Friday night shooting on Vancouver Island

A highway traffic camera captures an RCMP deployment just before 10 p.m., Friday. DriveBC

A major thoroughfare on southern Vancouver Island was closed for much of Saturday, as RCMP investigated a fatal shooting on Friday night.

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RCMP say they were called to the 4600 block of Kangaroo Road in Metchosin, just after 9 p.m., with reports of a 37-year-old man having been shot.

Police, including an Emergency Response Team Unit and a dog team, responded and found the victim dead at the scene. Mounties say he was known to police, and that the shooting appears targeted.

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An image captured by a highway traffic camera, just before 10 p.m., showed an active police deployment at the intersection of the highway and Kangaroo Road.

The Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit has since taken conduct of the investigation.

Police have not arrested a suspect.

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The intersection of Highway 14 and Kangaroo Road reopened around 3:30 p.m.

Anyone with information about the incident, or who was in the area between 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., on Friday is asked to contact RCMP.

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