One of the two south Kitchener homes hit by bullets over the weekend wasn’t the intended target of the shots, Waterloo Regional Police say.
The first home hit was a townhouse on Pioneer Drive, near Doon Village Road.
Around 3 a.m. Saturday, multiple shots were filed at the townhouse. One bullet went through a kitchen window.
Lexus Hudson lives in the unit next door, where a birthday party had been ongoing.
She believes the shots had something to do with a group of “random people” that had showed up at the party a little while earlier.
“It got a little out of control,” she says.
Eventually, Hudson says, the original partiers were able to convince the newcomers to leave.
About 45 minutes later, she says, the people remaining inside the townhouse heard a “really loud bang.”
Hudson looked outside, saw nothing unusual, and went back inside.
A few minutes later, the police showed up and told her that the unit next door had been shot at.
“They said … ‘It was intended for your house, but they missed,’” she says.
It is not clear if anyone was inside the townhouse at the time.
Early Sunday morning, shots were fired at a home about five kilometres north, on County Hills Drive.
Cody McAllister says he was home when two men drove up and asked him where his stepbrother was.
“As they were walking away, I said ‘Don’t come back’ and after that they started firing,” he says.
McAllister initially thought the men were firing “cap guns or something,” but realized otherwise when he saw three bullet holes in the house – including one leading into his closet.
Police say that while they’re still piecing together exactly what happened and trying to identify suspects, they’re confident that neither shooting was a random act – or an isolated one.
“We do believe at this time that they’re connected,” Insp. Greg Lamport said in an interview.
Lamport said that “persons of interest” have been identified in connection with the shootings, but those people are not considered suspects at this point.
With reporting by Allison Tanner
