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Police in Oliver have arrested a man for allegedly shooting his .22 calibre rifle inside his apartment suite, damaging several neighbouring units.
On Monday afternoon at 2 p.m., a complainant contacted the Oliver RCMP to report that, while sitting on his couch at home, he heard a loud bang and the cushion beside him now had a hole in it and stuffing was coming out of it.
He resided on the second floor of a three-storey residence, separated into three living units located south of Oliver near Road 11, Cst. James Grandy said.
The man believed the loud bang came from the unit directly below him, which was occupied by 30-year-old Daniel Khafizov.
RCMP attended the address supported by South Okanagan Traffic Services, Osoyoos RCMP and the First Nation Policing member.
“The third floor tenant exited the residence when members arrived and advised he heard several loud bangs and observed pieces of metal on his floor,” Grandy said.
The RCMP were able to get Khafizov to exit his bottom floor unit and arrested him.
A search of his unit revealed spent .22 caliber casings, a .22 caliber rifle along with multiple small caliber bullet holes in his ceiling and walls.
An examination of the middle and top floor units revealed multiple small caliber holes in the floors and ceilings.
Khafizov has been charged with several firearms offences,
“At this time there is no reason to believe he was targeting the upstairs tenants, instead he was just carelessly firing the .22 caliber rifle indiscriminately into his ceiling and walls,” Grandy said.
