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London police are investigating a third shooting in the past week after a gunshot victim showed up at hospital.
For the second time this week, hospital officials alerted police after a gunshot victim arrived seeking treatment.
In the most recent case, police were alerted on Wednesday around 3:25 a.m. to a man with serious but non-life threatening injuries from gunfire, police said.
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Investigators don’t know where the shooting happened and appealed for witnesses to come forward.
“While this is the city’s third reported shooting in under a week, investigators do not believe that the incidents are related at this time,” acting Det.-Insp. Jeff Ordronneau, the head of the organized crime and support branch, said in a statement.
The latest case of gunfire comes just four days after a man showed up at hospital on Sunday with a gunshot injury that wasn’t considered life-threatening. Ontario law requires workers at hospitals and health-care clinics to notify police whenever a patient seeks treatment for a potential gunshot wound.
Days earlier, a man was critically injured in daytime shooting at a northeast London public housing complex.
Investigators have obtained an arrest warrant for Cody Leblanc-Ashe, 28, for attempted murder in the shooting at a Boullee Street complex at 4:20 p.m. on Sept. 11.
Leblanc isn’t the only suspect wanted in a connection with a shooting who’s still on the lam.
Police are still searching for Dean Robert Dickieson, 31, on charges of discharging a firearm with intent to wound or endanger life, occupying a motor vehicle with a firearm and using a firearm during the commission of an indictable offence.
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