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Dawson heard several hours of submissions about the series of shootings, two of which took place on Nov. 12, 2015 and two more three nights later.

On the first night, police responded to two early morning shootings, one at a house on the 2400 block of Gordon Road and the other at the McDonalds restaurant on the 4600 block of Albert Street.

Kim-Zeggelaar said two men were sitting at the restaurant shortly before 1 a.m. when two bullets hit the window near them. No one was struck. Shortly after, at 1:12 a.m., police were notified about the Gordon Road house shooting. One of the home’s residents thought she heard a lightbulb explode, then realized someone had actually shot through her living room window. She found a bullet on the floor which came from a .22-calibre rifle.

The situation took an even more disturbing turn on Nov. 15 when two people were randomly targeted outside Regina businesses. The shootings occurred just minutes apart, around 11:30 p.m., in the same area as the earlier incidents, the first at the same McDonalds.

Kim-Zeggelaar told the court a 23-year-old man was walking into that restaurant when he was shot in the buttock. Court heard the bullet passed through into his scrotum. In a victim-impact statement, the man described dealing with severe pain and internal bleeding for some time after the shooting, adding his family had to come in from out of the country to look after him.

The second shooting occurred at the nearby Pizza Hut while a staff member locked up. Court heard she was outside when a 33-year-old woman was shot twice in the thigh. Kim-Zeggelaar described it as an “extremely serious and grave injury,” noting the bullet hit her femoral artery, causing heavy blood loss.