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Two people are dead and two people are in hospital after a Thursday night shooting in Stratford.
Officers responded at about 10:45 p.m. to multiple 911 calls about gunshots being fired in the area of Bradshaw Drive and McCarthy Road West near the Stratford Rotary Complex.
When officers arrived, they found four people with gunshot wounds, Stratford police said. Two people were dead while two others were taken to London’s Victoria Hospital by Ornge air ambulance after being treated by paramedics at the scene.
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One of the injured has life-threatening injuries while the other has life-altering injuries, police said.
“There is no further threat to the public” as a result of “this incident,” police said in a media release.
An area along Bradshaw Drive will be closed for most of Friday to allow officers to investigate, police said. Officers will also be canvassing the area for video and witness information.
Anyone in the area with video surveillance or photos of the incident is asked to submit the evidence to an online link: stratfordpolice.ca.evidence.com/axon/community-request/public/st24013979
Police offered condolences to the “individuals impacted.”
Several local residents posted to social media Thursday night about hearing gunshots in this area. One resident, noting five or six police cruisers at the corner of Bradshaw Street and McCarthy Road West, posted about hearing “three shotgun shots and thee handgun shots.”
Another resident posted grainy black-and-white camera footage of their backyard on Facebook that included the sounds of several gunshots in succession. Other people posted smartphone footage of officers and police cruisers in the usually quiet neighbourhood.
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