HALIFAX - Halifax police were looking Sunday for the suspect in the shooting death of a 21-year-old man at a home in the city's north end.
Police say Donald Jermaine Stevenson was pronounced dead at the scene on Jarvis Lane just after 8 p.m. Saturday.
Spokeswoman Theresa Rath said he victim, who was known to police, was shot in front of two family members.
She wouldn't comment on their relationship to Stevenson, but revealed that they were not children.
Rath said police believe the shooter and the victim knew one another.
"It appears the shooter knew where he was going and who he was looking for," said Rath.
She said it was also believed the suspect was wearing a skull mask and dark clothing and fled the scene on foot, before being picked up a short time later on Dartmouth Avenue by a silver coloured SUV.
Rath said it was the second murder on the same street in the past three months.
Ryan Matthew White, 21, was shot in the chest and died last July.
"Investigators do not believe at this time that they (the killings) are connected but we are open to all possibilities," Rath said.
She said police are urging anyone with information about the latest shooting to come forward.
Meanwhile, police were continuing to investigate a second shooting Saturday at a home in the Spryfield area.
A 23-year-old woman was taken to hospital where she was treated for what is believed to be non-life threatening injuries.
Investigators said the woman and other people interviewed at the scene were unco-operative.
Police said they didn't believe the shooting was a random act.
