PG Mounties investigating second early-morning shooting in five days

An early-morning shooting at a Redwood Street home is under investigation by the Prince George RCMP.

It happened just after 3 o’clock this morning (Tuesday) where officers found two people inside a residence located on the 2100 block that were suffering from gun shot wounds and taken to hospital for treatment.

Officers are asking that anyone who saw any suspicious persons or vehicles on the street around the time of the shooting to contact the detachment with that information.

Investigators would also like anyone with video surveillance in that neighbourhood to please check their cameras, including doorbell cameras, for any people or vehicles moving through the area that they do not recognize from their neighbourhood.

“Though this investigation is just beginning, investigators have reason to believe that this was a targeted incident. However, though the public was not the target, shootings in our city require that we all pay extra attention to what is happening in our neighbourhoods and report anything suspicious to the police for us to investigate,” stated Corporal Jennifer Cooper.

To address the increased weapons violence we have experienced recently, the Problem Oriented Policing team has set up enhanced patrols in these neighbourhoods, focusing this targeted enforcement action on those known to be associated with organized crime and, in turn, increasing community safety.

Police expect to remain in the neighbourhood for some time yet today (Tuesday).

This is the second early-morning shooting in the city over the past few days.

On Friday, police were called to the 600-block of Ahbau Street, behind the Spruceland Mall.

Officers attended the scene and confirmed there were no injured residents. The investigation lead to the partial closure of the road which has since been a few hours later.

NOTE: This story has been updated to fix an error which stated the incident occurred on the 3300-block of Redwood Street.