Three injured, including innocent teen, in Mount Pleasant shooting
Three people were injured, including an innocent teenager, after a brazen shooting on Broadway Street in Vancouver on Saturday night.
Several shots rang out near East Broadway and Ontario in Mount Pleasant just before 9:15 p.m. When officers arrived, they found three people suffering from injuries, including a 15-year-old bystander who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
“This is bad,” said Vancouver police spokesman Sgt. Jason Robillard at a news conference Sunday. “We are concerned about how brazen this was. This is a priority for us.”
Robillard said there were indications there was an exchange of gunfire at the scene but declined to provide details, saying he could not release information on whether any of the victims were armed.
One of the people shot was a Vancouver man in his 20s who is known to police, and who police believe was targeted in the shooting.
He sustained life-threatening injuries and remains in hospital.
A 15-year-old boy from Coquitlam, who was in a vehicle driving by the street at the time of the shooting, is also in hospital in serious condition.
A third person, a Vancouver man in his 30s, sustained minor injuries and was treated at the scene and released. Police believe he was also not targeted.
Police cordoned off several blocks of Broadway between Manitoba and Quebec Streets for most of Sunday as investigators gathered evidence. More than 30 officers were at the scene.
“We have officers working around the clock since this occurred,” said Robillard.
Shootings like this are rare, he added. When they happen “we put all our resources available to us to investigate this type of crime.”
No arrests have been made.
Police are asking anyone who may have witnessed the shooting or who may have dash camera footage and was in the area between 9 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday to call 6047172500.