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Man shot in targeted Egan Street shooting on Wednesday morning

A man was sent to hospital with non life-threatening injuries after an alleged Egan Street shooting early Wednesday morning. Thunder Bay Police believe the gunshot went through the rear door of the residence, striking a 45-year-old male resident.
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What appears to be a bullet hole can be seen in the door of this Egan Street home.

A man was sent to hospital with non life-threatening injuries after an alleged Egan Street shooting early Wednesday morning.

Thunder Bay Police believe the gunshot went through the rear door of the residence, striking a 45-year-old male resident. He was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries and is expected to make a full recovery but did require surgery Staff Sgt. Don Lewis said.

The address is known to police from previous drug investigations and police believe it was a targeted incident.

"The motive remains a mystery at this time as the investigation is ongoing," Lewis said.

Around ten people were in the home at the time. Police have no suspects. The Criminal Investigations Branch is conducting an investigation, including increased patrols in the area but so far there are no eye witnesses to the shooting.

One woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said she has lived in the neighbourhood for 20 years didn’t hear anything around the time of the incident.

And although it’s a quiet area, everybody knows there is a drug house down the street.

“In some ways it makes us feel safer because there are always cruisers going up and down the street and the drug people don’t want to bring attention to themselves so they’re pretty quiet,” she said.

“There’s often taxis pulling up down the street, people getting out, running to that drug house or the taxis pull up further down the street and people run down the street to get their fix. I don’t know who they think they’re kidding. Not any of the neighbours that’s for sure,” she added.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 684-1200 or by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

- With files from Jodi Lundmark




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