The MHA for Topsail-Paradise wants to know why an ambulance from Whitbourne ended up bringing a young shooting victim to hospital in St. John’s from CBS.

A 21-year-old man was shot in the back near Fowler’s Road last month.

The investigation continues, but the victim’s father took to VOCM Open Line indicating that he believed the incident was random.

Opposition critic Paul Dinn rose in the House of Assembly today to ask why an ambulance from Whitbourne was dispatched to take the man to hospital in St. John’s.

John Haggie responded in Health Minister John Hogan’s absence in the Legislature.

Dinn says in an emergency, “minutes matter, seconds matter…this could have been a tragedy, why was there no ambulance in the area?” Haggie indicated that he’s happy to look into the incident and the details, but until then it is impossible and inappropriate to speculate on the floor of the House.