Edmonton police are searching for the driver of a white SUV they believe was involved in two drive-by shootings in a west-end neighbourhood Sunday.
They said multiple shots were fired at a house on 159 Street and 107A Avenue shortly before 9 a.m.
There were people inside the home at the time of the shooting but nobody was injured.
Police believe it was a targeted shooting but that the suspects had the wrong address.
At about 4 p.m. on the same day, there was another shooting at a home next to the first scene.
Police believe at least two rounds were fired. No one was injured in that shooting either.
Residents in the area said Mayfield is a family-oriented neighbourhood.
“There’s always bad seeds anywhere in a neighbourhood, but you don’t like to hear it’s your neighbourhood,” nearby resident Alison Dix said.
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The family who lives in the first home that was shot at has no criminal ties, according to police.
A senior, who lives there with her son, her daughter-in-law and her infant grandchild, told Global News there were more than a dozen bullet holes in the house, fence and truck.
Witnesses told police a white SUV – possibly a GMC Terrain – being driven by a man with blond hair was seen leaving both scenes.
Lynda Lavallee and her sons live in the home that was fired at in the afternoon. She said she doesn’t understand why her house was targeted.
“We don’t know these guys,” she said. “I don’t know them.”
Police said they couldn’t comment on the home surrounding the second shooting, but Lavallee said she had a bad feeling after the first drive-by occurred.
“I had this feeling they were going to come back,” she said. “But why shoot my place when I don’t know them and my boys don’t know them?”
Lavallee was home alone when the shooting occurred, but said her grandchildren were in the house earlier that morning.
Edmonton Police Service spokesperson Scott Pattison said there has been a heavy police presence in the area since the shootings.
“We want to make sure that residents of that neighbourhood know that we’re keeping a close eye on things,” he said.
“No matter what neighbourhood, that level of violence is concerning for police.”
Police are still in the preliminary stages of their investigation.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Edmonton Police Service at 780-423-4567 or anonymously online.
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