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| Evicted woman in wheelchair opens fire in B.C. nursing home
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GIBSONS, B.C. — A distraught woman in a wheelchair who was being evicted shot one staff member at a B.C. nursing home Tuesday before being shot by police.
Despite earlier reports of fatalities, RCMP spokesman Cpl. Peter Thiessen said Tuesday night that no one was killed.
“I can confirm there was an officer-involved shooting,” Thiessen said. “As we speak at this moment there is nobody dead.”
“That includes any officer and any civilian,” he added, referring to media reports of an officer shot in the leg and of at least two dead in the shooting spree.
Thiessen said he is waiting to get to Gibsons, on the Sunshine Coast just north of Vancouver, before confirming details.
Staff members identified one of the injured as Ken Perrier, a facility manager at the Good Samaritan Christenson Village.
“We’re still in crisis here,” said a nurse, who didn’t want to be named.
The nurse said she hid in the bushes during the attack at the facility, which has 140 residents.
Mickey Stubley, who lives across the road, said he was in his backyard with his wife at around 4 p.m. when the shooting occurred.
“All of a sudden we heard a loud boom and we both said to each other what was that? Maybe a gunshot,” said Stubley, whose sister works at the home.
“About four or five minutes after (police) arrived I heard another shot that sounded similar to the first one and then I heard, I think it was, eight rapid fire shots after that.”
They went to the care home, but were told they couldn’t enter because “Ken got shot.”
Stubley said the shooter was wheelchair-bound.
Perrier was airlifted to Vancouver General Hospital. Witnesses say they saw at least one person airlifted from the scene with an apparent gunshot wound to the abdomen.
About 100 people are gathered outside the perimeter near the three-storey nursing home, which opened in 2006.
Four RCMP officers have cordoned off the block on both ends of the building. Police are turning away everyone who attempts to drive in and blocking cars and pedestrians from entering the block.
Janice Williams, who lives half a block from the care home, said she was walking her dogs when she heard gunshots.
“I thought it was a bunch of firecrackers and they came out and said, ‘Don’t walk your dogs down there, people are getting killed.’”
Nursing home workers sobbed and embraced as they shared news and rumours about the shooting.
Relatives of care home residents say the woman believed to be the shooter was brain damaged in a car accident years ago.
Reacting to the shooting, Gibsons Mayor Barry Janyck said, “I guess it could happen anywhere. It’s a shame that it had to happen here.”
Gibsons resident Linda Higgins told Canwest News Service that relatives of the nursing home residents are not being allowed inside the complex.
She waited with concern as police investigated the incident.
“My dad is inside I spoke with him and he is all right but they told him to just stay in his room,” she said.
“It’s all really scary,” she said.
© Copyright (c) Canwest News Service
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