By Tom Mark / Beach Radio Vernon

Possible connection examined between shootings in the Okanagan and Nanaimo

May 10, 2018 | 5:38 AM

VERNON —  RCMP have released more information about a shooting in Vernon on Monday and how it may be connected to the fatal shooting of a man by police at the Departure Bay ferry terminal in Nanaimo.

The shooting in Vernon occurred just before noon in the parking lot in the 2700 block of 43rd Avenue where Dollar Tree is.

A man was found shot in a vehicle and at last word was being treated in hospital for life-threatening wounds.

Now, RCMP are saying a vehicle  believed to be connected to the shooting was later seen in West Kelowna.

Monday evening, a man matching the description of the suspect in the shooting was seen with a gun at a motel and later is believed to have been involved in a carjacking.

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Police say that car was spotted on a BC Ferry the next morning and a man driving it was shot by officers in a confrontation after they stopped the vehicle when it drove off the ferry at Departure Bay in Nanaimo.

He later died.

It’s not clear if he was the suspect in the shooting in the Okanagan.