Shooting wasn’t random, police say

Police are still trying to piece together what happened at the chaotic scene of a possible home invasion in Douglasdale on Monday.

A flurry of 911 calls alerted police to a possible break and enter at a home on Douglasbank Way S.E. just after 8 p.m.

When officers arrived, they found a man in his 30s suffering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen outside the home.

They also encountered two residents of the home with minor injuries: one of them a man in his 30s, the other, a woman in her 20s, who jumped from the second-storey window to escape an altercation inside the home.

The man who had been shot was rushed to Foothills Hospital, where he later died of his injuries.

Investigators are still trying to determine what led to the shooting, but said Tuesday that they don’t believe it was random.

“We believe the deceased person showed up at the residence purposefully, they didn’t just pick that residence out of the blue,” Insp. Don Coleman said.

Coleman said while the initial reports suggested a home invasion, investigators are trying to determine what sort of relationship existed between the dead man and the residents of the home.

“The deceased did not live there and we’re still trying to determine what went on leading up to him entering the residence.”

All three were known to police “in various fashions,” Coleman said.

Police were working to obtain a search warrant for the home Tuesday afternoon.

Police said the deceased will be formally identified once an autopsy has been completed.