Long weekend ends with shooting, stabbing in HRM

Halifax police and RCMP are searching for the people behind a series of shots fired at a house and a stabbing in central Dartmouth.

The two incidents both happened around the same time Monday night after a relatively peaceful long weekend.

The gunshots were fired around 6:30 p.m. on Clarence Street in North Preston. The Chronicle Herald reports, the gunfire came from a car and the shots did not penetrate the wall.

In a separate incident about 15 minutes later, a 16-year-old boy was stabbed in the chest at a bus stop on Wyse Road near the MacDonald Bridge.

“The stab wounds were to his chest,” said Halifax Regional Police Staff Sgt. Darrell Gaudet. “They’re quite serious, but not believed to be life-threatening at this time.”

Gaudet says the boy got into some kind of altercation with two boys, around 16 or 17. They took off after the attack with two girls, one of whom may be pregnant. The other was described only as slender.

Gaudet says it’s still not clear whether the victim knew any of his assailants.

“Detectives are trying to determine that right now,” said Gaudet. “At first, indications were that he did not, but we’re not totally convinced of that at the moment.”

The stabbing victim underwent surgery, but is expected to survive.

Police are asking anyone who saw the stabbing, or has information about it, to contact them.

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