David Tschetter did everything he could to hold his door shut as two men attempted to break into his home on Saskatoon's Avenue T South Tuesday night.
He didn’t expect a shotgun blast to rip through the door, wounding him in the neck.
“So many things going through my head, like ‘I don’t want to bleed out. I don’t want to die,’” Tschetter said.
Tschetter ran out of his house after the shot. He wasn’t wearing any clothes.
“I was getting ready for bed so I wasn’t wearing anything at all when this happened. Nothing at all,” he said. “So when I went running outside I was completely nude, trying to run away from these guys.”
Tschetter’s roommate Manfred Kirnicki ran out of the house with him. He gave his friend his shirt to put on his wound and the two hid from the attackers.
Kirnicki said he didn’t have time to think. Adrenaline just took over.
“I was just acting," he said. "I just literally woke up."
Tschetter didn’t get a good look at the suspects. He said when he got home his house was ransacked. He believes he was being targeted in the attack.
“I think they were here to try to beat me or kill me,” he said.
The shooting was the second in Saskatoon Tuesday night.
About two hours earlier, four people burst into another home and fired what's believed to be a small-calibre gun at a man who had fled for help. He wasn't hit and suffered only minor injuries in the scuffle.
Investigators said the shootings do not appear to be connected, but that they believe both attacks were not random.
Tschetter said he won’t rest easy until the suspects are found.
--- with files from the Canadian Press
