Shooting in Coquitlam

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COQUITLAM (NEWS1130) – A shooting has taken place it Coquitlam.

Police were called to Coquitlam Centre a little after 3 p.m.

The victim suffered non-life threatening injuries.

The shooting happened metres away from a Heart & Stroke Foundation fundraiser.

Shelley Lycan, the foundation’s special events coordinator, says she heard the shooting before seeing anything. “Probably six pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop noises. I was standing talking to my boss at the time and I said ‘That’s gun shots. Somebody has been shot. We were right here and I looked over to the far side to see I could see any cars scrambling away. No cars were scrambling away but a big, black SUV was driving down the road and I kept my eye on the big SUV, stepped off the road. They stopped right there. The girlfriend jumped out of the truck and was obviously panicking, freaking out. She said ‘Does anyone have a Band-Aid?”

Lycan says it appears the victim was shot in the arm. “I don’t know how he didn’t get shot worse than that. The bullet holes that are on the driver’s side of the vehicle, they were actually quite low. Maybe the guy doesn’t have very good aim, I don’t know. It was shot up pretty good.”

She says a group of people helped the man out of the SUV and sat him down on the curb. “We started asking him questions. Did you see who it was? Do you know what the colour of the car was? The licence plate number? Did you see anything? He said it was a grey car. I said ‘Do you know what the make of it is?’ He told me it was a BMW.”

The suspect is on the loose. Mounties haven’t given any descriptions.

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