Police respond to reported shooting in southeast Calgary, victim taken to hospital

A person was taken to hospital with serious though non-life-threatening injuries after police were called to a reported shooting in southeast Calgary on Friday night.

Police said officers responded to 76 Avenue and 22A Street S.E. at 7:30 p.m. after someone called 911 to say someone had been shot.

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Police did not provide details about the victim other than to say he is a male and had suffered two gunshot wounds.

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They said their investigation is ongoing but that nobody was currently in custody.

Watch below: (From July 15, 2020) Calgary is on track to have its worst year in five years in terms of shootings. As Christa Dao reports, the city’s police chief spoke about those numbers soon after the city recorded its 56th shooting of the year.

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