Recent shootings bring up safety concerns in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS — With two shooting incidents in the span of five days last week in Kamloops, some are calling the safety of the city into question, although both were under different circumstances.
It started last Monday with a shooting on Nelson Avenue that wounded two men. It’s a house the Kamloops RCMP have been watching for a couple of years. Then Friday, a man shot at police before barricading himself at the G&M Trailer Park.
“Certainly concerning,” notes Kamloops RCMP Supt. Brad Mueller. “Any time you have people that are involved in a criminal element, drugs, mental health issues, and put on top of that firearms, shootings, our concern is public safety.”