Dave Jaworsky is reassuring residents that Waterloo is still a safe community

It's not a common sight for Waterloo -- two shootings, just over 24 hours apart from each other, both in the early morning, both scenes located minutes apart along King Street.

Waterloo Mayor Dave Jaworsky tells The Mike Farwell Show on 570 NEWS, he feels disturbed to hear that there was gun violence in our community.

“You look at that and try to figure out ‘what can be done, was there anybody seriously injured or killed?’ People hire me as the mayor of Waterloo to do the worrying for them and that’s what I bring to the table. I’m going to be the person looking after this, along with the police service and all other social sector people who can get involved as well. We’re looking at it. We’re looking into this.”

He says residents do not need to worry because we still live in a safe community.

“There’s probably an analogy here to the Ezra Ave., St. Patrick’s Day party. A lot of people who are on our streets are from out of town. They’re the ones who are potentially bringing trouble. We need to look into that as well. So I do fully believe that Waterloo is a safe city, it is Canada’s education city with 50,000 students here. Some of the big-city issues come to our small cities here.”

On Saturday, a regional police cruiser was involved in a crash, while responding to reports of gunshots fired in the King and Hickory area.

Two men were injured in the crash and as a result, the province's Special Investigations Unit has taken over the case.