The incident happened shortly after 3:30 p.m. at 1600 Chickadee Place Square, according to a press release from the Coquitlam RCMP. The square seems to be a suburban dead end in the north of the city. When they arrived, police found a victim known to police. He was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. Shortly after the shooting, a fire broke out in a vehicle on 2200 block of Hope Street in Port Moody, about a 15-minute drive away, according to Google Maps. The fire is believed to be linked to the shooting, Mountis said. Gang-related armed violence in the Lower Continent is often followed by the discovery of a burning escape vehicle as perpetrators try to destroy evidence linking them to the crime. “This is evidence that it was targeted and linked to the lower mainland conflict,” the Coquitlam RCMP said in a statement on Thursday. “Police are continuing to gather information to identify suspects.” Anyone with incident information is kindly requested to call the Coquitlam RCMP at 604-945-1550.
title: “Coquitlam Shooting Appears Connected To Gang Conflict Rcmp Say " ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-12” author: “Pamela Weinman”
The incident happened shortly after 3:30 p.m. at 1600 Chickadee Place Square, according to a press release from the Coquitlam RCMP. The square is a suburban dead end in the north of the city. When they arrived, police found a victim known to police. He was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. Shortly after the shooting, a car fire broke out at 2200 Hope Street in Port Moody, about a 15-minute drive away. The fire is believed to be linked to the shooting, Mountis said. Residents of the area were initially alerted to the fire by a series of explosions. “The first one shook our house, which is about a block from where the car was,” said Grant Suthaniel. Those closest to the blast thought their windows could explode. “We are just a few doors down. “The first thing I did was just move the kids away from all the windows because it was enough to shake the house,” said Joyce Ian. Gang-related armed violence in the Lower Continent is often followed by the discovery of a burning escape vehicle as perpetrators try to destroy evidence linking them to the crime. In this case, as the blazing flames from the car approached dangerously foliage, fences and houses, locals tried to extinguish it with garden hoses. One of the men, identified by a neighbor and a colleague as an off-duty firefighter, was injured and had to be hospitalized after approaching one of the blasts. Back in Chickadee Place, investigators worked on the house where the shooting took place through the night – just as they did in December when a man was shot in a vehicle parked in front of the same house. He also had non-life-threatening injuries and his nine-year-old son, in the car at the same time, escaped unharmed. “This is evidence that it was targeted and linked to the lower mainland conflict,” the Coquitlam RCMP said in a statement on Friday. “Police are continuing to gather information to identify suspects.” Anyone with incident information is kindly requested to call the Coquitlam RCMP at 604-945-1550.
