Police say a woman in a mobility scooter was the target of a public shooting in downtown Vancouver Monday night.
Shortly after 5 p.m., police responded to reports of shots being fired in the west lane of Hornby Street at Helmcken.
When police arrived, they found a mobility scooter with multiple bullet holes.
The driver of the scooter, a 43-year-old woman from Vancouver, ran to St. Paul’s Hospital on Burrard Street, where she was located by police. She was not injured. It is not clear if she is known to police.
Investigators say that there was an ongoing dispute between the shooter and the woman and that she was the target of the shooting. Police don’t believe the incident was domestic.
The suspect, 54-year-old Gerry Ronald Pennell from Vancouver, is known to police and was arrested without incident on Tuesday morning.
A number of witnesses came forward after the incident and investigators will be following up today.
“It is a fairly busy area. There is a lot of a foot traffic,” says Randy Fincham with VPD. “We believe there may have been people in the area who saw the suspect running away.”
WATCH: Investigators on the scene of a shooting near the Intersection of Hornby and Davie.
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