Bullets are coming through the house on NNSL.com
Caught in the crossfire of an early hours firefight Nov. 23, Arthur Wilson could not bear to look at the young man handcuffed and bleeding from a gunshot wound to the chest as the two shared an ambulance to Qikiqtani General Hospital.
Wilson was relieved to hear from emergency personnel that the bullet that woke him at 3:30 a.m. was not embedded in his head, but had only grazed his scalp.
“I was not very happy with this young fellow,” the 24-year-old said of the person he assumed had almost taken his life. “I heard the paramedic say, ‘Stop yelling,’ because he said the bullet had punctured his lung. ‘You have a bullet hole in your lung, save your energy.’ He was yelling a lot about his hands hurting from the handcuffs.”
Wilson and the suspect ended up in the ambulance together after the RCMP was called to the city’s 100 block for a report of shots being fired. The police arrived to find a male pointing a gun at them. Shots were fired and he fled the scene, a police press release said.
“I woke up with a very sharp pain in my head, like someone hit me over the skull with a baseball bat,” Wilson recalled. “Right after the pain, I heard two gunshots. So I immediately jumped on the ground, ducked for cover, crawled to the back bedroom where my sister and her family is, swung open the door and yelled, ‘Bullets are coming through the house! Get down! Get down!’”
He doesn’t know how many shots were fired or how many came through his house, but said one went through his pillows to graze his head, and another went through the wall two or three feet from his bed.
“As soon as it was over, I saw the blood on my hands and I bled quite a bit,” he said. “The shock started setting in, like, I’m going to die here. I have a bullet in my head. I was pretty scared for my life.”
