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Hamilton shooting Police are on the scene of a fatal shooting in downtown Hamilton on Friday, July 11, 2025. (Jacob Estrin\/ CTV News) <\/p>\nBelinda Sarkodie was on her way home after spending time with her friend in downtown Hamilton when she was shot and killed on Friday afternoon, Hamilton police said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBased on the information we have so far, it appears Belinda was an innocent bystander simply going about her day,\u201d Det. Sgt. John Obrovac said during a news conference on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The shooting occurred at the corner of King Street East and James Street North shortly before 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Hamilton shooting Police are on the scene of a fatal shooting in downtown Hamilton on Friday, July 11, 2025. (Jacob Estrin\/ CTV News) <\/p>\n
When officers arrived, they found a male victim with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. Obrovac said the 26-year-old Sarkodie was located further down King Street East suffering from a gunshot wound.<\/p>\n
She was pronounced dead at the scene. The male victim was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n
Obrovac said the suspect, who fled the scene on foot, is described as a white male with a medium build and brown hair and was last seen wearing a black T-shirt with a white design on the front and a letter \u201cV\u201d on the back, blue shorts, dark socks, dark shoes, and a dark-coloured medical-style mask.<\/p>\n
Investigators believe the male victim was the intended target, as the suspect may have known him, Obrovac said, adding that the motive is still unknown.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no information to suggest that the suspect and Belinda Sarkodie were known to each other or that she was targeted,\u201d the detective said.<\/p>\n
Sarkodie moved to Canada from Ghana just last year. She was living and working in Hamilton.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the time of the incident, she was spending time with a friend in the downtown core,\u201d Obrovac said. He noted that she has a brother in Manitoba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belinda Sarkodie was on her way home after spending time with her friend in downtown Hamilton when she…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4717,2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-60530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114842319209861870","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}