A 36-year-old London man is charged with firing a gun with intent to wound and other offences following a weekend shooting that shocked a northwest neighbourhood, leaving one man in critical condition.

Police were called Saturday morning to a townhouse at 2089 Beaverbrook Ave., where neighbours said a family of two older parents, their adult son and his wife and their two young children live together.

Some residents still were in their pyjamas when they heard the news about the violence.

“They’re really nice people,” said one neighbour, who declined to be named, about the family.

“I’ve never seen a nicer lady” than the older woman, he said.

The neighbourhood is “very nice, quiet,” he said, adding he’s lived there for three years.

“I was never expecting anything like this in my life.”

Police arrived to see a male suspect take off on a Harley Davidson motorcycle neighbours say belongs to the son of the family. Police pursued the suspect, who lost control of the bike at Riverside Drive and Wonderland Road before fleeing on foot until officers apprehended him, said police.

Themistoklis Kouzounas, 36, of London was charged Sunday with seven offences including aggravated assault, failing to submit to a drug evaluation and dangerous driving.

In November 2011 he was charged with aggravated assault, forcible confinement and a break-in 10 years earlier, but he was acquitted of the charges.

Police held two other men in custody Saturday, but they were later released.

Police said they believe the victim and the accused are known to each other.

At least nine police cars were at the scene Saturday, with officers going door-to-door interviewing neighbours.

Officers combed the area, searching through neat front lawns and shrubs and flowers for a weapon, but had still not found it, police said.

A family living beside the unit where the shooting occurred said they didn’t hear a gun go off, but said they heard a motorcycle take off, normal there, but earlier than usual in the day, they added.

Police wouldn’t identify the man injured, who remained in critical condition in a London hospital.

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