Police are still searching for the shooter, who allegedly fled the scene in a vehicle, police said. Several RCMP officers and paramedics converged on a home on Laguna Way in the city’s Lost Lake area shortly after 8 p.m. A man in his 30s was treated at the scene outside the home and then taken to hospital, police said Friday. “There were no other injuries reported and from information gathered to date, it appears to be an isolated incident,” Nanaimo RCMP spokesman Gary O’Brien said. A neighbor who spoke to CTV News on Friday said she was in her backyard hot tub when a young woman jumped over her fence. “She kept crying and shaking,” Halina Grzyb said. “He said, ‘Please save me – someone’s got a gun to my head.’ Grzyb said she brought the woman inside her home until police arrived. Some residents in the area said they recently installed security cameras in their homes because of suspicious activity at the home where the shootings occurred. “We were kind so scared because this is a nice, quiet street,” Grzyb added. “We knew something suspicious was going on [with] the cars that go – that move in and out – and some cars [were] very expensive.” Mounties confirmed Friday that security cameras at neighboring properties captured a lot of useful information for the investigation. “This person has not been arrested yet, so we’re looking for the public to help us with that and hold this person accountable and get them off the street,” O’Brien said. Nanaimo Mayor Leonard Krogh called the shooting “obviously very troubling” and added, “obviously we want the shooter to be brought to justice.” Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the Nanaimo RCMP detachment at 250-754-2345.
