Police are urging people to avoid an area of central Coquitlam as they respond to a shooting on Thursday.
RCMP said the incident happened in the area of Johnson Street and Glen Drive just before 3 p.m.
Mounties said they received reports that “multiple individuals” had shot at a vehicle and were pointing a gun.
There were no immediate reports of injuries, and police said they had located two suspects.
B.C. Emergency Health Services said no patients were transported to hospital.
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“We are extremely lucky that no one was injured during this brazen day-time shooting in a very populated area,” Coquitlam RCMP Officer in Charge, Supt. Keith Bramhill, said in a media release.
“As we are in the initial stages of the investigation, we are asking anyone who may have witnessed the shooting or saw a man pointing a firearm in the area of Johnson Street and Glen Drive to contact police.”
Police are also looking for any video shot in the area between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m.
Police asked people to avoid Glen Drive between Lansdowne Drive and Pinetree Way, and Johnson Street between Guildford Way and Conley Crescent.
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Witnesses reported more than a dozen police vehicles responding, along with an RCMP helicopter.
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