1 dead, another in hospital following shooting outside Calgary grocery store

Calgary police are investigating after a man was shot and killed outside the North Hill Co-op on Monday.

Calgary police say a person has died after a shooting in a grocery store parking lot in the city’s northeast Monday evening.

Police say officers responded to a shooting in the parking lot of the North Hill Calgary Co-Op at 520 16 Ave. N.E. in the community of Winston Heights/Mountview at just before 8 p.m. Monday.

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Officers arrived on the scene found two men suffering with gunshot wounds.

Both were taken to Foothills Medical Centre in life-threatening condition.

In an update at 9:30 p.m., police said one of those men had died.

The other victim is in stable condition and is expected to undergo surgery on Tuesday, Duty Insp. Darren Smith told reporters at 10:30 p.m.

Calgary Police Service (CPS) Duty Insp. Darren Smith told reporters at a news conference Monday night that three suspects had fled the scene, but it’s unclear whether all three of those people had fired shots.

No one is in custody, he said.

‘Risk on public safety’

There were several shoppers inside the store at the time of the shooting, and Smith said dozens of bystanders could have been hurt in what he described as a “brazen shooting.”

“The Calgary Police Service takes gun violence very seriously, and brazen shootings happening in broad daylight while people are going about their business grocery shopping ... puts far too great a risk on public safety,” Smith said.

Alex Boisselle was one of those shoppers. He said he had a basket full of groceries when a man ran into the store crying out that he’d been shot.

Boisselle ran out of the store where he found a second victim lying in a “huge pool of blood.”

“It all happened really fast, so you don’t have a lot of time to think,” Boisselle told CTV News when he’d returned to the scene later in the evening to retrieve his vehicle.

Shooting believed to be targeted

Smith said police believe the shooting was targeted. The deceased victim was known to police, he said, while the other victim was not.

It’s also not immediately clear whether the victims knew each other, Smith said.

Police say the store was placed in lockdown, but that has since been lifted. The store will remain closed for a “significant period of time,” Smith said.

There are no road closures in effect, but police are asking people to stay out of the area as the investigation continues.