Vancouver police have not identified any suspects in four incidents involving firearms Sunday night, reporting that the victims in at least two assaults provided limited information.
Officers were first called to a report of someone brandishing a gun in the Bagley Downs neighborhood, at a retail complex at 5000 E. Fourth Plain Blvd. Sgt. Sean Dumas said a group of young men approached a woman in the parking lot there around 6:20 p.m. and asked her for drugs. Dumas said her boyfriend intervened as they assaulted her, and one of the assailants produced a handgun.
The suspects ran away, and the victims headed toward the police department’s West Precinct.
Police department spokeswoman Kim Kapp said in an email Monday that the couple “provided limited cooperation with police and did not provide any suspect description other than” the skin tones of two of the alleged robbers. They did not describe the other two men or give police an idea of what they’d been wearing, Kapp said.
Shortly after, at around 6:40 p.m., officers responded to another robbery call in the Bagley Downs neighborhood, this time at the Marketplace Apartments, 2900 General Anderson Ave.
Kapp said a man was playing basketball when a group approached him and stole his wallet. He chased the men into the apartment complex, and one of them turned around and fired a single shot in his direction.
The victim told police the assailants were a group of five to six young men likely between the ages of 18 and 20, according to Kapp.
There was a second victim in the Marketplace incident, Kapp said. The suspects ran past a woman, “pointed a gun at her, demanded her phone and then threw the phone on the ground, breaking it,” she said.
Neither the man playing basketball nor the woman with the broken cellphone were physically struck by the men, Kapp said.
The third incident happened about 7:30 p.m. when someone shot at people in a vehicle near the Planet Fitness in the North Garrison Heights neighborhood. The people walked away uninjured, but their vehicle was damaged by multiple bullet holes, Kapp said. The shooters were allegedly two men, she said.
A fourth incident happened about an hour later on the 4400 block of Plomondon Street. A man was assaulted by “several males, one of whom brandished a gun at him,” Kapp said.
“He was not seriously injured and provided limited information to police,” she said.
No suspects in the rash of gun-related incidents have been identified. The Safe Streets Task Force is continuing to investigate.
