Gail Evans was out for a walk near her home in Abbotsford, B.C., last weekend when a car drove past and someone shot her with a pellet gun.

"I glanced over, the window was down, and the driver looked at me, pointed his gun out the window and I heard three pops," Evans told CTV Vancouver.

Evans said she was hit in the chest and eventually developed a "good-sized" red welt.

"It stung. It burned for a few hours later," said Evans.

The random attack is part a string of recent pellet gun shootings in the city. Since July 18, there have been 15 drive-by shootings, eight targeting homes and cars and nine on pedestrians.

Most of the incidents have happened on the west side of Abbotsford, and all of them have taken place between 3:00 p.m. and midnight.

Police are on the lookout for a male suspect between the ages of 18 to 25. His vehicle is described as a dark-coloured sedan.

They believe that the attacks could be part of a gang initiation, or practice for drive-bys with actual ammunition.

Despite the fact that the perpetrators are using pellet guns, police take any shots fired as a serious crime.

"It is a high-risk take down because that weapon you treat as real, until you know that it isn't," said Const. Ian Macdonald. "So absolutely it would be a high-stress situation for our officers and I can guarantee it would be for the suspect."

Meanwhile, Evans and her husband Jim Verwoerd said they won't rest easy until the shooter has been caught or ends the attacks.

Verwoerd added that his wife is lucky to have escaped without having suffered any significant injuries.

"She could have lost an eye or something. The whole point of letting people know about this is so they're careful and aware because something far worse could have happened," said Verwoerd.

Police are asking anyone with information to contact them.

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With a report from CTV Vancouver's Peter Grainger