Gunshots, fired from assault rifles, looked like fireworks as they ricocheted off the asphalt on Jackson Street East.

Across the road a group of people in a parking lot on the northeast corner of Jackson and Bowen streets took cover.

This is the scene revealed in surveillance video of a downtown shooting shared by Hamilton police. The video shows the shooters opened fire north across Jackson early Saturday, at a time police said there were dozens of people in the area.

Video handout of a shooting that occurred in downtown Hamilton on Labour Day weekend 2025. Hamilton Police

On Wednesday, police said the investigation has determined four guns — two assault rifles and two handguns — were used in the shooting that sent three young men to hospital and littered the outside of a downt

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