Man shot during Cache Creek bike race hopes public can help find shooter

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BURNABY (NEWS1130) – A Burnaby man who was shot during a bike race near Cache Creek is asking for people to come forward with any information that may help find the shooter.

Police are calling it a brazen, unprovoked and random attack.

Craig Premack was competing in the Cache Creek 600 race on June 1st when he was shot through his forearm while travelling on Highway 1, just south of Spences Bridge.

“Originally, I thought they were firecrackers,” he tells us. “But then, my right forearm just blew up. Seconds later, I could feel the warmth of the blood rolling down my leg.”

“I couldn’t believe it was happening. It was almost like a bad dream. I looked down and I could feel the blood and… my goodness, I’ve been shot. I’ve really been shot,” he describes.

Premack says he was shot about a centimetre away from his elbow.

“The impact of the bullet turned the bone into a bunch of very small fragments over a couple inches. So, it doesn’t have any stability at all.”

He says he saw a dark-coloured vehicle leave a pull-out after he was shot. Other cyclists reported two incidents of two men throwing things from a dark-coloured pickup truck earlier in that same race.

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