Waterloo regional police say the suspect in a Kitchener homicide has been arrested in a “high-risk takedown” involving members of their emergency response team.
Just after of 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, police said a 22-year-old man is now in custody and has been charged with second-degree murder and a number of firearm-related offenses.
He was arrested in the area of Highland and Westmount roads.
Three days ago, police were called to a home in the area of Wellington Street North and St Leger Street around 9:45 p.m. Sunday for a reports of a shooting.
When officers arrived, they found a man suffering from gunshot wounds. Frederick Pfeiffer, 47, of Cambridge was taken to an out-of-region hospital with life-threatening injuries where he died a day later, police said.
Investigators believe the shooting was targeted.
Security footage captured by cameras at a business across the street and shared with CTV News shows paramedics wheeling someone away in a stretcher.
Jake Snethlaje works at the business and watched the emergency response play out on the cameras.
“I was not nervous, but I was a little shocked that that was happening right across the street,” Snethlaje said.
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