A person of interest is being sought by RCMP in relation to a shooting that took place early Thursday morning in Lincoln, N.B.
At about 5:10 a.m. RCMP received a call about a shooting in Tamarack Park off of Lincoln Road.
Police said in a release Thursday afternoon that a 34-year-old man had been shot. After he was shot, they said he left the area and went to a Fredericton motel on Lincoln Road, where he was found by emergency crews and taken to hospital with serious injuries.
RCMP say they are trying to find 30-year-old Evan Polchies in connection to the investigation. Police say in a second release it’s believed he may have a firearm and the public should not approach him.
He is described as an aboriginal man with black hair and brown eyes, standing approximately 6-foot-1, weighing about 180 pounds with numerous tattoos. He may also be driving a white 2005 Kia Sorento with the Alberta licence plate number BVD 2709.
Knock on the door
Despite the early morning hour, a man staying at the motel said he was woken up by someone knocking on his door.
“Last night we were here, me and my wife … we fell asleep with the lights on and five o’clock in the morning there was a knock on the door,” Wesley Peterson told Global News. “I come out and answered it and there was a lady yelling frantically that her boyfriend had been shot.”
Peterson said he tried to help the man.
“Not much you can think about,” he said. “Just help them as much as you could so I got my wife to call the ambulance and I came out and tried to talk to him, keep him aware long enough till they got here and just before they did he passed out, so they fixed him a little bit there and took him in the ambulance up to the hospital.”
Neighbours in the Tamarack Park area say they didn’t hear or see anything early in the morning, but a woman who lived next door to where the shooting happened called it “unsettling.”
“It’s kind of scary,” Laurette Johnson said. “I mean you don’t know what can happen.
“The yellow tape is what gets to me and then the baggy things … It’s just kind of scary and I just hope nobody’s hurt bad.”
The RCMP are still investigating.
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