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Abdulmalek Shibli Abdulmalek Shibli is pictured in this photo released by police. (Hamilton Police Service handout) <\/p>\nThe victims have been identified as a 16-year-old and 18-year-old man as investigators work to determine what led to the shooting. <\/p>\n
A shooting that claimed the lives of two males, including a 16-year-old boy, early Wednesday morning may have been in \u201cretaliation\u201d for a bear spray attack that happened at a Hamilton home earlier in the night, police say. <\/p>\n
Police say the shots rang out at a home at a Candlewood Drive, near Rymal Road East and Upper Centennial Parkway, at around 2:25 a.m.<\/p>\n
Two males, identified by police as 18-year-old Abdulmalek Shibli and 16-year-old Afef Binafif, were found suffering from gunshot wounds outside the residence, police said, and they were subsequently pronounced dead in hospital. <\/p>\n
Abdulmalek Shibli Abdulmalek Shibli is pictured in this photo released by police. (Hamilton Police Service handout) <\/p>\n
Speaking at a news conference on Wednesday morning, Det.-Sgt. Mike Ebert said at least six individuals attended the area when \u201can exchange of gunfire occurred.\u201d <\/p>\n
Ebert said he believes at least one of the individuals involved in the exchange of gunfire was also involved in a bear spray attack that occurred at a residence near Barton St East Centennial Parkway North at around midnight. <\/p>\n
\u201cAt this time, police believe the shooting may have been retaliation for an earlier disturbance involving bear spray,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Ebert said they have not yet identified all of the parties involved in the two incidents and no suspects are in custody. <\/p>\n
He said the families of the two victims are \u201cdevastated by the loss\u201d and are asking for privacy at this time. <\/p>\n
Ebert said officers are still in the process of collecting video evidence and interviewing witnesses. <\/p>\n
He noted that it appears the residence on Candlewood was targeted in the shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The victims have been identified as a 16-year-old and 18-year-old man as investigators work to determine what led…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-834280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}