Two people are dead and six injured when a shooter or shooters fired at a crowd of people attending a South Asian wedding reception in Ottawa. The shooting outside the Infiniti Infinity Convention Centre left two men dead and six more injured in what police is now saying that the shooting was targeted but people killed were innocent and not those were allegedly targeted.
By DESIBUZZCanada Staff
OTTAWA – Two people are dead and six injured when a shooter or shooters fired at a crowd of people attending a South Asian wedding reception in Ottawa.
The shooting outside the Infiniti Infinity Convention Centre left two men dead and six more injured in what police is now saying that the shooting was targeted but people killed were innocent and not those were allegedly targeted.
The victims were attending a reception at the Infinity Convention Centre on the 2900 block of Gibford Drive, off Hunt Club Road near the Ottawa International Airport, reported CBC News.
The two victims were identified Sunday afternoon as 26-year-old Said Mohamed Ali and 29-year-old Abdishakur Abdi-Dahir, both from Toronto.
Ottawa police had made no arrests as of Sunday afternoon and did not have a description of any suspects.
“All investigative angles are being explored,” police said in their Sunday afternoon media release. “At this stage, there is no indication that this was a hate-motivated shooting.”
Ottawa paramedic spokesman Marc-Antoine Deschamps said the six people who were injured were not in life-threatening condition.
Saturday night’s shooting “cannot be described as anything less than a tragedy,” wrote Anu Sohal, a representative with the convention centre, in an email to Radio-Canada.
“Our hearts break for the victims and their families,” Sohal wrote.
