SaskatchewanThe Queen City Eastview Community Centre Association held its annual general meeting on Wednesday where residents discussed safety after a shooting in the neighbourhood left an 11-year-old girl seriously injured earlier this month.11-year-old girl was injured by a gunshot in the area on Aug. 11Aliyah Marko-Omene · CBC News · Posted: Aug 29, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours agoThe Queen City Eastview Community Center Association held its annual general meeting Wednesday, where residents discussed safety issues in the area. (Adam Bent/CBC)People in a Regina neighbourhood are talking safety after a shooting left an 11-year-old girl injured earlier this month. The incident happened on the 1000 block of Edgar Street in the city’s Eastview neighbourhood on Aug. 11. Shots were fired from outside a home and then the girl was found suffering from a gunshot wound inside the home.Some residents say they are growing fearful as they wait for answers from police as to how or why the incident happened. Parents in the community are especially worried.Leaders in the Queen City Eastview Community Association looked to ease some of those concerns at its annual general meeting Wednesday. “We can do it as a community. We can do it in a safe space. We can talk about the emotions that are attached to this and have the right people in the room to tell us the facts as they are,” said Denis Simard, the community association’s executive director. He said the incident was alarming for many residents in the community, himself included. Simard lives a block and a half from where the shooting happened.”At the exact same moment, I had a five-year-old sleeping in her bedroom,” he said. “It could have been a stray bullet coming into my house instead of someone else’s.”Simard said the shooting came as a shock to the neighbourhood.”What you literally see here are neighbours and friends … people that have known each other 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, grew up together in this neighbourhood,” said Simard. “This is their safe place.”With so much uncertainty around the circumstances of the shooting, Simard said there have been a lot of rumours going around. Small bullet holes are visible on the outside of a home where gunshots were fired on Aug. 11. (Kirk Fraser/CBC)Simard said the complex where the shooting happened is new to the neighbourhood and attached to Habitat for Humanity. “They’re doing their best to try and fit in and then this happens,” said Bill Gray, the community association’s chairperson. “No fault for anybody except the person doing the shooting.”He said as someone involved in the community centre and a resident of the neighbourhood, he does his best to try and put a stop to any rumours that come up.”Of course, because it’s under investigation, RPS, Regina Police Service can’t actually disclose a whole bunch of information,” he said. “So you try and turn the focus on what can we do as a community to ensure that if something like this happens, what precautions do we have?”The area’s MLA, city councillor and a Regina police respresentative attended the meeting Wednesday as well, to discuss home and area safety. Gray said residents were able to learn about the importance of installing and registering security cameras in their homes, and were advised to prioritize community awareness and communication among neighbours. Anyone in the area of the 1000 block of Edgar Street who has video surveillance from Aug. 10 and Aug. 11 is asked to reach out to Regina police investigators, who issued this map of the area they’re interested in. (Regina Police Service)”I think for the people that have been living here for a long time, they pretty much will understand that this is an isolated incident,” said Gray. “For the new, new people in the neighborhood, we have to instill in them that, you know, we’re a very safe neighborhood.”Police say the investigation is still ongoing. “Anyone who has information that may assist investigators is asked to contact police,” a spokesperson for police told CBC Wednesday.Simard said he hopes the annual general meeting eased some of the residents’ worries and shifted their focus to the answers they do have. “The biggest thing that we didn’t know was … was this little girl OK?” he said. “She’s still in recovery, but she’s alive and so that’s the biggest thing.”He said residents should “feed the positive” and “feed these moments” where residents get to take care of one another. “The truth is, we’re all parents here trying to raise our kids safely,” said Simard. ABOUT THE AUTHORAliyah Marko-Omene is a reporter for CBC Saskatchewan. She has previously worked for CBC and Toronto Star in Toronto. You can reach her at aliyah.marko@cbc.ca.
Residents talk safety following shooting in Regina’s Eastview neighbourhood
