Video shows brazen daylight shooting in downtown Vancouver

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CTV Information has obtained video of a focused taking pictures that shocked bystanders in a busy space of downtown Vancouver Saturday night.

Miraculously, no individuals have been harm when two gunmen opened fireplace at shut vary at a automotive on Robson and Richards streets round 5:40 p.m. Nevertheless, police stated two canines that have been within the automobile with the goal have been injured.

The surveillance video exhibits two masked males exiting a white automotive, then working towards a black automobile and firing bullets at it. The black automotive then drives ahead, crashes into one other white automobile and stops. A person will get out of the focused automotive and runs away whereas the shooters maintain firing at him. The gunmen then run again to the white automotive and drive away.

A witness informed CTV Information bystanders within the busy procuring district have been frozen in concern because the violence unfolded.

No arrests have been made but.

“It’s a miracle that nobody was injured; it’s a miracle that no person was killed,” Vancouver Police Division Sgt. Steve Addison informed reporters in a briefing on Sunday, acknowledging the video as “chilling” to observe. “We had individuals working for canopy, we had individuals actually working for his or her lives.”

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim informed CTV Information he was on his approach to a live performance when he discovered concerning the taking pictures, and stopped on the scene to be briefed by police.

“That is completely horrible. The truth that a few brazen people would do that with no regard for public security, it is disgusting,” Sim stated.

“The individuals who did this are going to be held accountable,” he added.

Addison stated investigators have recognized the goal and that he’s allegedly concerned in gang exercise.

He stated police are bracing for a “retaliatory incident” within the close to future as they count on the violence to observe the sample of comparable Decrease Mainland gang shootings.

With information from CTV Information Vancouver’s Penny Daflos and Andrew Weichel