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When millionaire real estate developer Riaz Mamdani was shot six times outside of his Mount Royal mansion in December, he still had the wherewithal to phone 911. Bleeding heavily and in pain, he spoke with the operator until help arrived — and then walked to the ambulance.

In his first media interview since the shooting, Mamdani told Postmedia he was on his way to a weekly board meeting at his Strategic Group on the morning of Dec. 19, 2016 when he was confronted by a gunman, who fled after firing six rounds.

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The bullets struck his lower lip, left cheek, left ear, left arm and his chest. Although the shooter appeared to have aimed at his head and heart, where the wounds could have been fatal, he survived.

“I sure feel lucky,” he said, sitting in a boardroom at his company’s downtown offices, the scars on his lip and cheek still visible.

“I remember an awful lot of blood. I remember an awful lot of pain … I was thinking of keeping my family calm and reassured, and dealing with the issues.”