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Police investigating 2 shootings in Dartmouth, North Preston on Canada Day

Halifax Regional Police received a call about gun shots in the area of Canso Lane just after 10 p.m. on Canada Day. Alexa MacLean/Global News

Police are investigating a pair of shootings in the Dartmouth and North Preston areas on Canada Day night.

Halifax District RCMP were first called just before 9 p.m. Friday night to a report of a shooting on Amos Walter Drive in North Preston.

“Police learned a 24-year-old man incurred a non-life threatening injury and (the) outside of a residence was damaged,” RCMP wrote in a news release.

The investigation is being handled by the Halifax Regional Police/RCMP Guns and Gangs Unit of the Criminal Investigation Division.

About an hour later, Halifax Regional Police received a call about gun shots in the area of Canso Lane in Dartmouth.

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“Officers responded to the area and located a crime scene,” police said in a news release.

No one was injured and there was no “suspect information” available.

Anyone with information is asked to call 902-490-5020 or submit a tip anonymously through Crime Stoppers.

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