A Surrey, B.C., man says two recent shootings at his businesses are connected to ongoing extortion attempts targeting the South Asian community.

Satish Kumar, the president of the city's Lakshmi Narayan Mandir temple, said he received video voicemails on May 28 from numbers listed as being from Italy and New Zealand that demanded $2 million.

He said he refused to pay and reported it to police at the time, but officials took no action.

In the early hours of June 7, shots were fired at the banquet h…