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An early morning shooting on Monday that left a home in the city’s Carling neighbourhood riddled with bullet holes was targeted, London police said.
Officers were called to a home in the 700-block of Huron Street, a short distance east of Adelaide Street, around 3:20 a.m. for a reported shooting.
Evidence was found at the scene that confirmed multiple shots had been fired at the home, which was occupied at the time, police said, adding no injuries were reported.
“The investigation has been reassigned to the LPS Major Crime Section. Investigators have determined that the shooting was targeted,” police said in a statement.
Police are asking residents and businesses in the area to check their surveillance and dashcam systems for between 3 a.m. and 3:30 a.m.
It’s at least the 22nd incident of gunfire in the city so far this year, and one of a handful of incidents in the last six months where a home has been shot at.
Late last month, police charged a 21-year-old London man after a suspect was observed on video shooting at a home in the 200-block of Boullee Street in August.
In a separate August shooting, a home on Foxridge Crescent was fired at 33 times. No one was hurt, and the occupants were not the intended targets. A 23-year-old Innisfil man was arrested last month by York police in connection with the shooting, and six others in Brampton and Vaughan.
London police are also investigating after two homes, one on Homestead Court in the city’s northwest and one on Huron Street near Western University, were shot at within 15 minutes of each other on the morning of Oct. 15. A suspect Honda Civic was observed at both locations.
An investigation is also continuing, after a home in the 6000-block of Crown Grant Road, on the outskirts of the city, was shot at on Sept. 23.
During a news conference in September, the city’s police chief acknowledged the uptick in gun violence, and blamed a “broken” criminal justice system, pushing for bail reform, a review of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, and tougher sentencing.
The federal government announced changes to the justice system last month, designed to make bail harder to get, especially for repeat and violent offenders.
