Edmonton family on edge after stray bullet flies through daughter’s bedroom

After a night filled with loud Canada Day fireworks, residents in the south Edmonton neighbourhood of Hazeldean woke up Saturday morning to more loud noise, from a gun.

After a night filled with loud Canada Day fireworks, residents in the south Edmonton neighbourhood of Hazeldean woke up Saturday morning to more loud noise.

“I heard a loud car this morning then a couple pop, pops and that’s what woke me up,” Hazeldean resident Will Mages said.

“I heard these two bangs,” another resident Blaire Charbonneau added.  “I was waiting and listening if I could hear anything afterward.”

But Charbonneau didn’t, that’s because the loud bangs were not fireworks but gunfire.

Mike Corpuz, who also lives in the neighbourhood, said he saw what happened shortly after 6 a.m. through his doorbell camera.

“There was an altercation, a red truck parked across the street did a U-turn to head west then someone came out of (the house next door),” Corpuz said.

Corpuz added that’s when someone struck the red truck with an object.

“After that, I heard two shots,” Corpuz said. “I bolted out of bed, grabbed my daughters and went downstairs. I noticed the window was broken and bullets went into my daughter’s room.”