North Vancouver RCMP are on the scene of an apparent early morning shooting in the Cloverley neighbourhood. Residents on the 1100 block of Cloverley Street were awoken by four or five gunshots around 5:20 a.m. Wednesday (Sept 14). “It was this ‘crack, crack, crack,’ and that was that,” said neighbour Bob Robert. “And [my wife] heard tires screeching.” Nearby resident Anthony Riglietti described a similar scene. “All of a sudden around 5 a.m., there were four or five shots. I sat up and thought ‘Is that fire crackers?” he said. “It’s a cliché to say you never really expect it to happen where you live, but here we are.” Another neighbour, who declined to be named, said he was also woken by the rapid “pop pop pop” of shots being fired close together. “It was hard to count them. I’d say there were at least four or five,” he said. The man said he then heard the screeching of tires and ran outside to find a Lexus SUV shot up with bullet holes. “I heard the radiator fluid pouring out of the front and then I walked around and I saw the glass of the back windshield crumbling.” The neighbour said there was no one in the car or on the street. The man said he believes the vehicle is associated to a man who rents a suite nearby. “To me it’s kind of a warning. An I-know-where-you-live kind of thing,” he said. The shooting has left neighbours on the street feeling nervous, he added. “There’s lots of young kids in the neighbourhood. It’s scary.” North Vancouver RCMP members had Cloverley Street blocked off near Brooksbank Avenue this morning, with officers collecting evidence from the scene and canvassing neighbours for potential witnesses and surveillance footage. RCMP had not issued any statement on the shooting or responded to questions by early afternoon. A black SUV parked beyond the police caution tape has a broken window. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has not been called in, indicating no one was killed in the shooting, although IHIT is now on the scene of a fatal shooting overnight in Burnaby. There is nothing to indicate the two incidents are connected. [email protected] twitter.com/brentrichter
