VIDEO: Three days after homicide at Highway 1 park-and-ride encampment in Fraser Valley, fire guts at least one unit
Camper or RV destroyed by blaze around 11 a.m. Thursday, March 26, 2026
March 26, 2026
Three days after a shooting left a 69-year-old man dead at the Whatcom Road park-and-ride on Highway 1 in Abbotsford there was a fire destroying at least one of the RVs or campers in the encampment.
Shortly after 11 a.m. on Thursday (March 26, 2026) a reader of Something Worth Reading sent in images of the still smouldering wreckage as Abbotsford Police Department officers looked on.
A report from one witness said the individual in the camper had a wood stove inside and that the man got out safely.
Before midnight on March 23, 2026, a 69-year-old man was shot and killed by someone at the Whatcom Road Park & Ride on at the northeast corner of Highway 1 where Whatcom crosses over.
The Lower Mainland’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) is on the case, working now with the Abbotsford Police Department’s Major Crime Unit, Forensic Identification Service, and the BC Coroners Services on the investigation.
The 69-year-old man was a resident at the encampment.
No one is parking and riding at this lot that has become a symbol of the post-pandemic economic and housing crisis. The Whatcom Road Park & Ride, just like the Cole Road rest stop eastbound and east of there, or the Bradner Road rest area to the west, have become a visible representation of what, ironically, is often referred to as the “hidden homeless.” Encampments that anyone travelling in either direction on Highway 1 see every day.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the IHIT information line at 1-877-551-IHIT (4448) or by email at ihitinfo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca.
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