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Police in Saskatoon say a 19-year-old man was hospitalized after a shooting early on Sunday morning.
According to police, officers were called to a home on Centennial Drive, in the city’s Pacific Heights neighbourhood, at around 3:30 a.m., where they found the victim with a gunshot wound.
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“He was transported to hospital with what are believed to be non-life threatening injuries,” the Saskatoon Police Service said in a statement.
Anyone with information that could help the investigation was encouraged to contact police or make an anonymous report through Crime Stoppers.
Three arrested after officers spot stolen vehicle
Three people were arrested after police surrounded a stolen vehicle in the city’s the Westmount neighbourhood on Friday morning.
Police said officers were patrolling in the 800 block of 22nd Street West when they spotted the vehicle at a gas station.
“Verbal commands were issued to the occupants; however, they refused to comply,” police said in a statement.
Police said a “less-lethal weapon” was used to break the vehicle’s windows, “allowing officers better visibility inside.” After the officers broke the window, police said one of the occupants got out of the vehicle and was arrested.
“The second occupant exited the vehicle a short time later; however, continued to be non-compliant with commands. The less-lethal weapon was again used to gain compliance from the occupant; he was arrested without further incident,” police said.
“A third suspect was arrested from within the gas station without incident.”
Police said charges against the three people who were arrested – a 28-year-old man, a 35-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman, are pending.
Man arrested after allegedly hitting parked vehicles during high-speed chase
A 40-year-old man allegedly tried fleeing from police in a stolen vehicle in a high-speed chase on Saturday night.
Police said officers received a report saying a black Nissan Rogue SUV had been stolen from the 2100 block of Eighth Street East just before 10:30 p.m..
Officers in the police plane spotted the stolen vehicle on Oliver Crescent, but police said the driver took off “at a high rate of speed.”
Police said the air support unit spent about half an hour watching the driver in the stolen SUV “driving erratically, including striking several parked and unoccupied vehicles before eventually stopping in the 1300 block of 8th Street East and fleeing on foot.”
The driver was taken into custody with the help of the canine unit before he was taken to hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. Police did not say how the injuries were sustained.
The 40-year-old man has been charged with motor vehicle theft, driving while prohibited, failing to stop for police, dangerous driving, impaired driving and possession of methamphetamine. He was also arrested on outstanding warrants, noted police.
