Clint Smith was shot while trying to retrieve tools stolen from his shop.
Jeff Callaghan stands halfway down a steep, well-worn dirt path pointing to the spot where an altercation Sunday afternoon ended with a Nanaimo auto shop owner in hospital with a bullet in his abdomen.
A large tarp tent where Clint Smith, who remains in hospital, and others confronted a group of people has been removed. They demanded that everyone get out of the tent so they could search it for other stolen items, he said. Smith was hit by three bullets at some point, but Callaghan isn’t sure exactly when it happened. The group ran back up the hill and across Terminal Avenue, chased by a man with a rifle.“He was just mad. Not only did you steal my s—-, but you bring out guns and try to shoot me?” Callaghan said.
Collen Middleton, interim chair of the Nanaimo Area Public Safety Association, said he got involved after his garage was broken into and sentimental items, including the guitar he learned to play on, were stolen.
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