Vancouver police have made an arrest in a double shooting on the city’s east side that caused a woman to lose her unborn child.
Police say Carleton Stevens, 37-year-old Surrey man, was arrested just before 8 p.m. Sunday near 154A Avenue and Fraser Highway.
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He faces one charge of attempted murder and one charge of possession of ammunition or a firearm against a prohibition order, and is in police custody.
The shooting took place around 6 a.m. Friday near the back of a print shop on Industrial Avenue in Vancouver.
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Police called to the scene found a 31-year-old woman in critical condition and a 23-year-old man with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds. The woman remains in serious but stable condition, while the man is recovering, according to police.
However, the woman — who was in her third trimester of pregnancy — lost her child.
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Witnesses said the gunman was the woman’s ex, and that she had reportedly moved to Vancouver to leave an unsafe situation.
A witness who gave her name as Dollie told Global News she saw the victim with a hole through her belly.
Vancouver police say the investigation remains ongoing, and that more criminal charges could be coming.
-With files from Amy Judd and Rumina Daya
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