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Man shot at shelter taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries

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An emergency shelter being set up on the former Sands Hotel site on Fort Road near Yellowhead Trail on December 15, 2023. Known as NiGiNan Housing Ventures. (Jeremy Thompson/CTV News Edmonton)

A man was shot at a shelter in northeast Edmonton late Friday afternoon.

When officers arrived at the Niginan Housing Ventures facility located at the former Sands Hotel on Fort Road at 123 Avenue, a man had been shot, the Edmonton Police Service said.

He was treated by EMS and taken to hospital with serious, non-life threatening injuries.

Investigators are working to determine if the person shot worked at the shelter, EPS told CTV Edmonton.