Burnaby RCMP are investigating a number of reviews of individuals and automobiles being struck by paintballs Saturday night and early Sunday morning.
Burnaby resident Ryan Bonato says he went out for a late-night drive that night when his car and one other close by automotive have been abruptly struck by paintballs.
“Swiftly, simply out of nowhere, the automotive simply began getting hit,” he mentioned.
“They have been all around the windshield after which they hit the door. Fortunately they didn’t undergo the windshield and hit me.”
Bonato says he seen the pictures have been coming from a bush. He turned his automotive round and noticed a bunch of younger males operating right into a black automotive. He adopted the car whereas on the telephone with 911.
“They have been hanging out the automotive capturing me with extra paintballs as we have been driving,” he mentioned.
“I knew to not flip my windshield wipers on or else they might have smeared it in all places.”
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As soon as the 2 automobiles reached a lifeless finish, the suspects ran away.
In an announcement, Burnaby RCMP spokesperson Cst. Mike Kalanj mentioned police tried to trace the suspects with the assistance of police canines however have been unable to seek out them.
“This car is believed to have been stolen,” he added.
Bonato’s car wasn’t the one one focused that night time. Kalanj mentioned frontline officers responded to 2 different reviews of paintball capturing incidents earlier Saturday night.
Officers responded to a report of a sufferer being shot with paintballs simply after 8 p.m. close to Carleton Avenue and Charles Road.
“It was reported that a number of male suspects, carrying ski masks, have been in an unknown car when one among them shot the paintballs from the car earlier than fleeing the world. Police carried out in depth patrols with destructive outcomes. The 19-year-old male sufferer was unhurt,” mentioned Kalanj.
Simply after 9 p.m. that night, RCMP officers responded to a different report of a sufferer behind hit with paintballs, this time close to Willingdon Avenue and Pandora Road.
“The car, which had a number of male suspects inside, fled the scene after the incident. Police attended and carried out patrols, nevertheless; no suspects have been situated as a consequence of a fifteen-minute time delay in reporting. The 13-year-old male sufferer sustained minor accidents,” mentioned Kalanj.
Bonato says he’s fortunate his encounter with the suspected paintball shooters – who he believes have been across the ages of 19 and 20 years previous – didn’t have an unlucky final result.
“Afterwards, whenever you get house on the finish of all of it and the adrenaline all goes down, you concentrate on all of the methods it may’ve performed out,” he mentioned.
“That’s when the grownup aspect of you begins to return out and also you begin to fear and be like, ‘wow, that would’ve went lots in a different way.’”
The police investigation into the incidents is ongoing.
