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Drive-by shooting targets cocktail bar in Vancouver's Yaletown

Police say there are no known injuries aftera Yaletown bar was peppered in a drive-by shooting Wednesday morning.

Police say no known injuries from shooting that happened in the morning when Isabelle's was closed

A cracked window in a brick-facade building with a puncture mark in the centre. The puncture is marked with a sticker bearing the letter 'D.'
A pierced, cracked windowpane at Isabelle's, a cocktail bar in Yaletown. A number of other small puncture marks were visible on the building's facade. (Nick Allan/CBC)

Police say there are no known injuries after a Yaletown business was peppered in a drive-by shooting Wednesday morning.

Police aren't naming the business, but a spokesperson for Isabelle's, a cocktail bar on Hamilton Street, confirmed the front of theirestablishment was struck by bullets.

AVPD cruiser was seen in the afternoonparked in front of Isabelle's. A closer inspection of the bar's exterior reveals small holes puncturing a plastic patio enclosure, an awning and a cracked windowpane. A number of the holes are marked with stickers bearing ruler-like markings or handwritten letters.

Police say the shooting took place just after 8 a.m. when the business was closed.

A VPD cruiser is parked outside a Yaletown bar.
A police cruiser was seen outside the bar Wednesday afternoon. (Nick Allan/CBC)

Police said the suspector suspects are unknown, as is any motive.

"The investigation remains ongoing," a police spokesperson said.

A small piercing in plastic has a ruler-like sticker next to it labelled
A puncture mark seen on a plastic patio enclosure at Isabelle's in Yaletown. (Nick Allan/CBC)

A spokesperson for the company that owns the bar said ownership only found out about the shooting hours after it happened.

He said they don't have much information but are co-operating with the investigation.

A patio cordoned off by a plastic patio enclosure has at least six small white stickers pasted on it.
A number of white stickers are pasted next to piercings in the patio enclosure. (Nick Allan/CBC)