WOODSTOCK, New Brunswick — One person is dead and another injured following a pair of firearm-related incidents early Tuesday in western New Brunswick.
Police in the town of Woodstock, located across the Maine border near Houlton, said a 22-year-old man wandered into a pub after being shot in the chest.
Chief Dana Collicott said the man entered the Riverside Pub shortly before 2 a.m., saying he had been shot by someone who drove by him in a vehicle.
“We believe that he had walked a few hundred meters to the pub,” Collicott said Tuesday.
The man was taken to the Upper River Valley Hospital and later transferred to Fredericton.
“The victim was operated on at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital in Fredericton and his condition has stabilized,” Collicott said.
Then around 3 a.m., police were told of what appeared to be a body and a firearm inside a vehicle located off a road near Upper Brighton, about six miles outside Woodstock.
Woodstock police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police responded to the scene and confirmed the car’s occupant, a 22-year-old man, was dead.
“He was found dead in the car, with a shotgun in the vehicle,” said RCMP Sgt. Claude Tremblay.
Collicott said both men were from the Woodstock area, but could not confirm if the two incidents were related.
“Outside of the close time proximity, and both incidents having the presence of a firearm . . . that’s all that’s tying the two incidents together right now.”
RCMP, Woodstock Police and Fredericton Police are investigating.