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Three people face charges following a shooting in what police are calling a housing unit takeover in Peterborough, Ont., on Tuesday evening.
Around 7 p.m. the Peterborough Police Service say officers were conducting a wellbeing check at an apartment unit at a complex on Fairbairn Street near Parkview Drive. The 36-unit building is owned by the Peterborough Housing Corporation.
Police say that after they knocked on a door, a 24-year-old man came out of an apartment with a gunshot wound to his leg.
He was treated by paramedics and later taken to Peterborough Regional Health Centre.
Police say they later called up the emergency response team, K9 unit and remotely piloted aircraft system after learning there were more people in the residence.
Area residents were advised to stay in their homes or avoid the area.
Around 10:30 p.m., police reopened the road and lifted the residence order.
Police say they seized 28.5 grams of suspected fentanyl and some cash.
The incident led to the arrest of three people.
A 22-year-old man from St. Catharines, Ont., a 16-year-old boy from Whitby, Ont., and a 15-year-old boy from Ajax, Ont., were arrested and each charged with unauthorized possession of a prohibited or restricted firearm, possession of a schedule I substance for the purpose of trafficking and possession of proceeds obtained by crime under $5,000.
The 16-year-old was also charged with failure to comply with an undertaking to abide by a set curfew in their place of residence and to not possess a firearm or prohibited weapon.
A housing unit on Fairbairn Street in Peterborough remains cordoned off on May 1, 2024.
All three were held in custody and are scheduled to appear in court in Peterborough on Wednesday.
Police define a housing unit takeover as a situation in which the tenant or homeowner finds themselves “manipulated and endangered physically, financially, and/or psychologically” by people who have moved into their home.
It’s the second shooting in less than a week in the city following the fatal shooting of a man on April 26 which led to the arrest of one person that same day.
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