Police are asking for the public\u2019s help locating two Calgary men wanted in connection with an April shooting that left a man critically injured.<\/p>\n
The Medicine Hat Police Service said officers responded to a residence in the 300 block of Seventh Street Southeast on April 29 after receiving a report of a shooting.<\/p>\n
Police found an adult man suffering from a serious gunshot wound.<\/p>\n
Victim airlifted to Calgary<\/p>\n
Officers provided emergency care until paramedics arrived.<\/p>\n
The victim was taken to hospital in Medicine Hat and later airlifted to Calgary with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
Police said the man survived and continues to recover.<\/p>\n
Arrest warrants issued<\/p>\n
Following an investigation by the Major Crime Unit, police issued arrest warrants for 31-year-old Robert Bourassa and 26-year-old Levi Chudyk, both of Calgary.<\/p>\n
Bourassa is wanted on charges of aggravated assault, discharging a firearm with intent to wound, possession of a prohibited or restricted firearm, careless use of a firearm and possession of a weapon dangerous to the public peace.<\/p>\n
He also faces two counts of failing to comply with a firearms prohibition order.<\/p>\n
Chudyk is wanted on similar charges, along with pointing a firearm, obstructing a peace officer and three counts of failing to comply with a firearms prohibition order.<\/p>\n
The allegations have not been proven in court.<\/p>\n
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Public warned not to approach<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the whereabouts of Bourassa or Chudyk is asked to contact Medicine Hat police at 403-529-8481 or their local police service.<\/p>\n
Police are warning members of the public not to approach or attempt to apprehend either man.<\/p>\n
Anonymous information can also be submitted through the Medicine Hat Police Service website or mobile app.<\/p>\n
The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are asking for the public\u2019s help locating two Calgary men wanted in connection with an April shooting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-841271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841271","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=841271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}