(JENNIFER STAHN / iNFOnews.ca)
Republished May 09, 2016 - 2:59 PM
Original Publication Date May 08, 2016 - 1:00 PM
VERNON – A boy was taken to hospital with a gunshot wound after a shooting in Vernon’s Mission Hill neighbourhood on the weekend.
RCMP say officers were called to a report of shots fire in the 1500-block of 33 Street at 12:25 a.m., May 8, and found a male youth had received a gunshot injury.
“One male youth received a non-life threatening injury,” Sgt. Mike Moyer says in a media release. “Investigators believe this was a targeted incident, and the matter remains under investigation.”
RCMP aren’t saying how the boy was injured, how many shots were fired, whether the shots happened inside a home or outside, if the gunshots hit anything or if the shooting is related to gunfire in the same part of town a few weeks ago.
Calls to the Vernon RCMP were not been returned.
A man who lives near Jim’s Place Pizza tells iNFOnews.ca he heard the gunshots. The man, who does not want to be identified, says police knocked on his door at 3 a.m. to ask questions about the alleged shooting, adding RCMP investigators were still on the scene this morning.
Vernon RCMP were on the scene of a shooting in the 3400-block of Okanagan Avenue on April 21. No one was hurt and no property was damaged. RCMP have yet to release any additional information about that shooting.
— This story was updated at 1:29 p.m., Sunday, May 8, 2016 to add information from a RCMP media release.
— This story was updated at 2:56 p.m., Monday, May 9, 2016 to add information from a RCMP media release.
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