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Kelleher Cosmetic- Go! ihf' Look You Wrintwww.kellehercosmetic.com343B - 18th StBrandon, MBtBY IAN HITCHENmother of two was taken to Brandon hospital yesterday with a wound to her abdomen following a shooting at a downtown apartment.Her two sons, aged 17 and 13, clutched their heads in distress as paramedics earned their mom on a stretcher from their apartment in a brick house in the 400-block of 10th Street.“My mom just got shot,” the 13-year-old son said quietly as he leaned against a street sign for support.Police were called to the apartment block, located across the street from the back of city hall and near the future site of the new city police station, at4:42 p.m.About half a dozen officers and at least two members of the Brandon Police Service Forensic Identification Unit were on scene.Police didn’t release the vic-COLIN CORNE AU/BRANDON SUNtim’s name but BPS Sgt Marc A man is arrested following a shooting at a house in the 400-block of 10th Street on Tuesday.Alain said the 35-year-old was shot once in the abdomen in her third-floor suite.Her sons were inside the apartment when their mom wasdidn’t know specifics of her con- ment in the victim’s apartmentShe then heard thumping,dition.He said police detained two men who were found at the resi-shortly before she heard the sounds of a struggle, men yellingshot.COLIN CORNEAU/BRANDON SUNABOVE: Police hold back a man as a victim of a shooting is loaded onto an ambulance on Tuesday afternoon in the 400-block of 10th Street.LEFT: A woman wipes away tears as a victim of a shooting is placed into an ambulance in the 400-block of 10th Street.She said she was in her ownand then a gunshot.Bystanders who work and said she and co-workers have“Downtown Brandon has ashot, Alain said, but no one else dence for questioning and offi- apartment cleaning when she live in the area didn’t seem sur- heard arguments there before rea* problem.was injured.Police haven’tcers were looking for two other heard people arguing in the prised by the shooting and saidfound a People.weapon, but believe the shot was fired from a small-calibie firearm, possibly a nfle.The victim, Alain said, wasLast night, police were working to determine a motive, Alain said.upstairs suite where the victim lives with her two sons and husband.“We heard, ‘Why is your ...illegal drugs are sold out of the apartment block.A man who lives in the areaand spotted numerous peopleand uoinu from thecominghouse.“We make a joke about it, it s and asked not to be identified the drug house,” she said. “ItHowever, shootings are rare in Brandon. The last was onDec. 22, 2005, outside St.Augustine’s Roman Catholic Church on Fourth Street.A woman who lives in the girlfriend here, what’s she doing said he once bought drugs there, was just a matter of timeastable when taken to hospital but building said she heard an argu- here7’” the neighbour said.A woman who works nearby shooting or stabbing.ihitiheniu brandomutt.com
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Brandon Sun
Brandon, Manitoba, CA
Wed, Jul 18, 2007
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