Yukon woman speaks out after gunshots fired in Whitehorse neighbourhood

A Yukon woman is speaking out about violence in Whitehorse after a condo unit adjacent to her children's home was peppered with gunfire.

RCMP were called to a condominium complex off Range Road North early Thursday morning to respond to a car fire. While there, they also discovered gunshots had been fired into one of the units. 

Nobody was hurt, but police say there were people inside at the time. Residents of the unit refused an interview with CBC, but said they have no enemies and don't know why their home was shot at.

"You bet I'm angry," said Gwen Lanatk Wally, whose adult daughter and teenage son live nearby in the same complex. "This kind of thing has got to stop."

"Every time we hear about something like this, we hear about it the day after and it gets swept away and nobody says anything. But the time to start saying something is now."

Whitehorse RCMP have launched a major investigation into the shooting, with its General Investigation Section and Forensic Identification Services involved. Police said on Thursday that the investigation was still in the preliminary stages.  

Wally is calling on officials to tackle what she sees as a growing problem in the city.

"In all my years, I've never seen violence at this scale," she said. "It's like the big cities are coming on up."

"We need to start getting our people, on our government levels, all levels, to start doing something about it, putting resources in places," Wally said. "Never mind trying to make a big election issue out of this kind of stuff, because this is hurting everyday grassroots people."