London police probing downtown gunfire

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London police are investigating a second case of gunfire in less than one week.

Police were called Monday around 3:10 a.m. to the 200-block of Dundas Street, east of Richmond Street, after a security guard heard several “loud bangs” and found suspected bullet holes in the glass of a building, police said.

Officers arrived and determined gunfire caused the damage, police said. Nobody was injured.

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Investigators are asking anyone who was in the area of Dundas and Wellington streets between 2:45 a.m. and 3:45 a.m., including anyone with video footage, to contact London police at 519-661-5670 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

The early-morning gunfire – the eighth shooting in the city this year – comes just six days after home in the city’s east end was struck by bullets.

A resident in the area of Huron Street and Briarhill Avenue called 911 on Nov. 19, last Tuesday, around 2:40 a.m. to report finding suspected bullet holes in their home after hearing several loud bangs, police said. Officers arrived and found evidence of gunfire, police said. Nobody was injured and no arrests have been made in the case.

Police seek driver after stolen SUV rollover crash

Police were searching for a man who fled the scene of a motor vehicle collision in a residential area of the Southwestern Ontario town of Tecumseh on Sunday afternoon.

Ontario Provincial Police officers responded to a report of a sport utility vehicle rollover at 3 p.m., on Lanoue Street near Rygate Drive.

Police said a sport utility vehicle struck a parked vehicle and rolled over. The driver left the scene on foot. Police said officers were not able to locate the individual during a search of the surrounding area.

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