A man was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries after a shooting Thursday night in Nanaimo, British Columbia
Police are still looking for the shooter, who reportedly fled the scene in a vehicle, police said.
Several RCMP officers and paramedics converged on a home on Laguna Way in the city’s Lost Lake area just after 8 p.m.
A man in his 30s was treated at the scene outside the house and then taken to hospital, police said Friday.
“There are no other injuries reported and from the information gathered so far, this appears to have been an isolated incident,” Nanaimo RCMP spokesperson Gary O’Brien said.
A neighbor who spoke to CTV News on Friday said she was in her backyard hot tub when a young woman jumped her fence.
“She kept crying and shaking,” Halina Gzyb said. “She said, ‘Please save me – someone’s got a gun to my head.’
Gzyb said she took the woman inside her house until police arrived.
Some residents in the area said they recently installed security cameras in their homes because of suspicious activity at the house where the shooting happened.
“We were so scared because it’s a nice, quiet street,” Gzyb added. “We knew something fishy was going on [with] cars go – in and out – and some cars [were] very expensive.”
Mounties confirmed on Friday that security cameras at neighboring properties captured a lot of useful information for the investigation.
“This man has not yet been apprehended, so we’re looking for the public to help us with this and hold him accountable and get him off the street,” O’Brien said.
Nanaimo Mayor Leonard Krogh called the shooting “obviously very disturbing” and added: “Obviously we want the perpetrator to be brought to justice.”
Anyone with information related to the incident is asked to contact the Nanaimo RCMP detachment at 250-754-2345.
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