Police ID men shot and killed in west Ottawa, say 3 shootings likely connected

Ottawa police believe three shootings that left two men in their 20s dead on Monday are connected.

Early Monday morning, around 7:10 a.m.,a man with multiple gunshot wounds arrived attheQueenswayCarleton Hospital, according to police.

Heis in serious condition in hospital,police said late Tuesday morning. His name has not been released.

While officers were investigating that first shooting in theElmhurst Parkareabetween Alpine AvenueandTavistockRoadnot far from Lincoln Fields Shopping Centre the body of aman was discovered nearby.

He has been identified as26-year-old Abdurahman Al-Shammari of Ottawa.

According to police, his body was found around 8:45 a.m. He was lying next to a van ona residential driveway onTavistockRoadnear Elmhurst Street, andhad been shot to death.

2nd dead body found in parked car

Later in the day, shortly after 12:30 p.m.,police were called to the intersection of Aylenand Wayne avenues, between Richmond Road and the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway, afterresidents reported an abandoned car with its engine still running.

View a map of the two scenes here

When police arrivedthey found a dead maninside the vehicle. He had been shot andwas pronounced dead at the scene.

Police identified him as26-year-old Dirie Ololof Ottawa.

Insp. John McGetricktold reporters at the crime scene that the carhad been there for "quite some time."

Police said Tuesday that Olol's deathis likely related to the two other Monday shootings.

No arrests have been made.

Police are asking anyone who saw anything suspiciousaround Elmhurst Park, or on the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway between Island Park Drive and Richmond Road between 6 and 8 a.m.Monday morning, to contact themajor crimeunit at613-236-1222, extension 5493.

Victims had faced criminal charges

"A day like this is quite horrific,"McGetricksaid. "A terrible day for the community and a more terrible day for the families involved."

But police Chief Charles Bordeleau said there is no concern for public safety.

"We believe that these incidents were targeted," Bordeleau said at an Ottawa Police Services Board meeting Monday afternoon, adding that the victims were known to police.

Court records showAl-Shammarihad been found guilty ofaccessory after the fact of another crime in 2011, while Ololhad been charged with drug possession in May 2015 and failed to attend court that same month.

'It sounded close'

Kevin Daly, who lives in theElmhurstPark area, said he and his wife heard "two pops" just before 7 a.m.

"We were just having our coffee. I thought it was a power line popping because it happens a lot with these power lines hitting the trees," Dalysaid in an interview from the scene.

"It was two pops. They were about a couple minutes apart. It sounded close. I didn't think anything of it, I actually thought it was the power lines being hit."