Man found guilty of 1st-degree murder in 2019 Surrey gas station shooting [Video]

A man has been found guilty of first-degree murder after a fatal shooting at a Surrey, B.C., gas station in 2019.

Surrey resident Kristijan Coric, 29, was shot in his vehicle on Sept. 28, 2019, around 6 p.m. at a gas station on the Fraser Highway near 68 Avenue. At the time, police called it a targeted hit.

About four hours later, Burnaby RCMP were called to a report of a burning Toyota car — which police said they believed was a getaway vehicle— at the intersection of Willingdon Avenue and Kemp Street.

Carlos Nathaniel Monteith was charged with murder in October 2020.

When he was arrested, police said Monteith was already in custody on an unrelated matter. 

New Westminster police arrested Monteith in November 2019 in relation to a shooting on Osborne Avenue that led to a woman being taken to hospital with injuries.

Last week, Monteith, who was born in 1995, was found guilty …