Saskatoon Police kept busy with gun crimes on Friday morning

While investigating one gun crime in the city on Friday morning, Saskatoon Police happened upon some unexpected evidence of an entirely different gun crime as well. Just before 9 a.m.

, police got a call about a woman pointing a firearm at another woman, and hitting her with the weapon, in the area around 22nd Street West and Avenue I North. Officers came and arrested a 36-year-old woman, who was found with an imitation firearm in her bag. She has been charged with pointing a firearm, possession of a weapon for the purpose of committing an offence, unauthorized carry of a concealed weapon, assault with a weapon and possession of false identity documents.



But a woman with a fake gun wasn’t the only thing the police found when they arrived on the scene When they checked surveillance footage from a business in the area, police saw that “a confrontation” between two men had taken place in the area just an hour before. “During the confrontation, one man produced a knife while the other produced and discharged a firearm,” police said in a statement. “Both men then left the area.

” Police are still investigating, and have asked anyone with information about the altercation between the two men to contact police directly at 306-975-8300 or report it anonymously to at 1-800-222-8477..