Ammy Virk wants everyone to stop panicking. The Punjabi singer and actor took to Instagram to shut down claims that gunmen had opened fire on his convoy in Canada, days after a concert in Abbotsford, British Columbia.

"Please don't believe everything being reported or circulated," he wrote, adding that he was "completely fine" and had nothing to do with the incident everyone was talking about.

The rumours picked up speed fast. Social media had it that shots were fired at a car believed to be travelling with Virk after his Abbotsford show. Real anxiety, real incident, wrong name attached to it, according to the Abbotsford Police Department.

AbbyPD says the shooting happened on September 5 in the 2500 block of McCallum Road, where a dark-coloured SUV pulled up alongside a vehicle and fired multiple rounds at it. Nobody was hurt. Shortly after, officers responding to reports of a vehicle fire a few blocks away, on Sunnyside Place, found an SUV fully engulfed in flames. Whether that torched vehicle and the shooting are connected is still being worked out. Motive, too, is unclear. The department's Major Crime Unit has taken over the file.

So where does Virk fit into any of this? Officially, nowhere. Police have said the shooting was unrelated to the singer.

His father, Kuljit Singh, went further in his own denial, telling reporters that the family was safe and that no shots had been fired at his son directly. But Singh added a detail the police statement doesn't confirm: he said the shooting had reportedly targeted the convoy of the concert's organisers, not Virk's own vehicle. That's the family's account for now, not a police-confirmed fact, and it sits a little differently from AbbyPD's version, which simply says a vehicle on McCallum Road was hit and doesn't name whose convoy it belonged to.

Either way, the panic among fans was real enough that Virk felt he had to post about it directly rather than let the story run on its own. Concert convoys, especially for touring Punjabi artists in North America, travel through cities where security around such shows is loosely organised at best, and a single unverified post can spiral into a national headline within hours.

For now, the facts on record are limited. A shooting happened. A car burned nearby. Nobody was injured. And Ammy Virk, whatever else gets said online, wasn't in that vehicle.

Abbotsford police haven't said when the investigation might produce answers on motive or on the fire's connection to the shooting. Until they do, the gap between the official account and what Virk's family is saying about who exactly was the target isn't going away.