Police increase patrols after car window shot at in Port Moody
Posted April 26, 2019 10:13 am.
Last Updated April 26, 2019 8:25 pm.
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PORT MOODY (NEWS 1130) – Police are increasing patrols after at least one car window was shot out with what is thought to be a paintball gun.
It’s said to have happened earlier this week. A member of the Port Moody Discussion Group took to the Facebook page to share what had happened, saying someone shot at her vehicle while she was driving.
“The back windshield has now collapsed,” the post reads. “I was in complete shock and still am quite shaken.”
She claims police told her that her car was the second vehicle this has happened to in the area of Spring and Elgin Streets, and that a truck had also been shot at a day earlier.
Photos show a large hole going through the rear window of a car, spiderwebbing the glass. It’s one of two vehicles shot at on Wednesday in the area of Spring and Douglas, before 5:30 p.m.
As for a motive, Cst. Jason Maschke says someone may be taking their frustrations out on drivers speeding through the area.
“It’s a 50-kilometre zone throughout the city, but in that area, it is a 30 kilometre an hour zone, so we are wanting to remind drivers to slow down if that certainly is a factor in relation to this,” Maschke adds. “But again, that’s all just speculation.”
Maschke is asking the shooter to leave the policing of the speed limit to them.
Anyone with more information is asked to call the department’s non-emergency line at 604-461-3456.
