Hamilton police are trying to find a suspect after what they’re calling a “tragic and brazen” capturing that killed a 26-year-old lady Friday.
Police are figuring out the girl as Belinda Sarkodie.
The capturing occurred within the space of King Road between James and MacNab streets Friday. Police have been referred to as to the world shortly earlier than 5:30 p.m.
When officers arrived, they encountered a “chaotic and distressing scene” and situated two victims, Hamilton police mentioned in a information launch.
A male sufferer struggling gun shot wounds was taken to hospital the place he obtained remedy for non-life-threatening accidents. Additional down the street, police situated Sarkodie, who was pronounced useless on scene.
Hamilton police are investigating a capturing downtown that left a feminine useless and male injured on Friday. (Eva Salinas/CBC)
Police say Sarkodie immigrated to Canada from Ghana in 2024 and was residing and dealing in Hamilton.
“On the time of the incident, she had been within the downtown core spending time with a good friend,” the discharge says.
Investigators imagine the male sufferer could have been the supposed goal, and that Belinda was an “harmless bystander tragically caught within the crossfire.”
Police say the suspect is a male with a medium construct and brown hair, who was sporting a black t-shirt with a white design on the entrance and a big purple letter “V” on the again on the time of the capturing.
He was additionally sporting blue shorts, darkish socks, and darkish sneakers and was sporting a medical model masks, the information launch mentioned.
The capturing occurred blocks away from the place crowds have been having fun with a free Artwork Crawl pageant.
