15-year-old hospitalized after shooting at Prince George homeless encampment

Andrew Kurjata · CBC News

· Posted: May 14, 2025 1:26 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

RCMP accidental they are investigating an overnight shooting astatine a Prince George, B.C., homeless encampment that sent a 15-year-old to hospital.

The constabulary unit says it happened in a recreational conveyance that has been parked successful the encampment, known arsenic Moccasin Flats, astatine astir 1 a.m. PT Wednesday morning.

The victim, a 15-year-old girl, was taken to infirmary with "serious but non-life-threatening injuries," Cpl. Jennifer Cooper said successful a quality release.

Police accidental they don't judge determination is immoderate wider hazard arsenic a effect of the shooting, and are seeking dashcam footage oregon witnesses to the event.

Moccasin Flats has been designated arsenic the sole determination successful Prince George wherever overnight camping is allowed arsenic portion of the city's efforts to curb radical sleeping successful different areas.

The metropolis is seeking a tribunal injunction allowing it to region the tract aft antecedently being prevented from doing truthful owed to a deficiency of suitable structure abstraction elsewhere successful the community.