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Despite police shooting her car twice on New Year’s Eve while it was parked outside a hotel, the city of Montreal is refusing to pay compensation to the Ontario woman whose vehicle was caught in the crossfire.

Shannon Ojero, from Brantford, Ont., says the city told her police were not in the wrong when they shot her black Lexus sedan during a shootout with a male suspect on René-Lévesque Blvd., and therefore her claim was not valid.

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“No liability rests with the city in this matter,” a city representative wrote to her in a three-sentence letter dated Jan. 30.

“But I think either the police or the city, someone should pay for it. I don’t think as citizens we should have to pay for police shooting your car,” Ojero said. “And especially not a tourist who was visiting for New Year’s Eve.”

Ojero had lent her car to her 17-year-old daughter, Angela Bradt, to celebrate New Year’s Eve with friends in Montreal. She wanted to make sure they had a reliable car for the trip. She also felt Montreal was safer than Toronto, the other closest option to ring in the New Year.