Three men in their 50s were taken to hospital after an early morning shooting in Hamilton’s east end.
Police are now looking for one suspect described as an Asian man wearing red pants and a red hoodie.
The shooting happened shortly after 12:30 Sunday morning at the corner of Gage Avenue North and Cannon Street East.
Three men with gunshot injuries were discovered by the responding officers at the scene and taken to hospital, where they remain in stable condition.
“I heard three gunshots,” Lisa Haas, a nearby resident, recalls. “I heard someone scream please ‘call the cops,’ I took off went around the corner with my husband, [then] called 911.”
Police haven’t released any details on which house the shooting broke out in, but say approximately eight people were inside the home when it began.
They believe the suspect, a man, attended the address looking for a specific person.
According to police, the three victims then told the suspect to leave before the disturbance escalated into a shooting.
The shooter then fled on foot in an unknown direction.
The gunman is described as an Asian man who was wearing red pants and a red hoodie.
This marks the city’s 26th shooting and comes one day after a previous incident that shut down part of Hamilton’s core for several hours on Friday.
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Det. Steve Bereziuk, the head of the department’s shooting response team, said he does not believe Sunday’s shooting had any connection to Friday’s.
“This incident appears to be isolated,” he said. “We’re always looking for linkage just to see if shootings are connected, right now, I’m fairly confident that this incident from yesterday morning is not connected to the shooting on Friday. Two very different sets of circumstances.”
He said there’s been a number of resources allocated throughout the service to help crack down on the recent uptick of gun violence throughout the city, and added that it’s a top priority at the station to hold offenders accountable.
“Recently, we have made a of couple arrests as well where we’ve recovered two firearms on the weekend, and that was a great job by the patrol units by those respective calls.”
