It’s Hamilton’s 16th shooting of the year so far and it happened on the West mountain.

It happened around 1:00pm in the area of Stone Church Rd and Upper Paradise.

Hamilton Police arrived on scene to find a man with a single gunshot wound to the forearm. The victim has been taken to hospital with serious, non-life threatening injury.

Hamilton police say they’re getting “varying” levels of cooperation from witnesses. They are asking anyone that may know anything more to call investigators or Crime Stoppers.