Police in two B.C. Interior cities probe fatal shootings, shopping mall violence
Posted January 24, 2019 9:56 am.
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KAMLOOPS, B.C. – Police are trying to determine if there’s a connection between separate shootings in Kamloops, B.C. that have left two men dead.
RCMP say the men, whose names have not been released, were both found suffering from gunshot wounds on Wednesday.
They say both cases are being treated as homicides and that no suspects are in custody.
The shootings happened just hours before unrelated violence in Kelowna, where a man was injured and the main entrance to that city’s shopping centre was closed for hours.
Witnesses report at least four shots were fired outside the entrance of a CIBC bank branch in the parking lot of the Orchard Park mall around 3 p.m., just before plainclothes officers and a tactical team arrested a man wanted for unspecified incidents.
Police say he was treated in hospital after being injured during the arrest that also included a brief foot chase and damage to a cab that was boxed in by RCMP vehicles.
