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The victims of two Monday morning shootings — one before daybreak, the other after — attended the same Sunday evening wedding in Ottawa, this newspaper has learned.

Homicide victim Guled Ahmed, 23, shot dead in a back alleyway on Carruthers Avenue, and a second man, who showed up at hospital with gunshot wounds after bullets were fired into the front window of a Gilmour Street home, were both staying at Airbnb rentals while they were in Ottawa for the wedding. Both are from Toronto.

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The homicide squad is now leading the probe into both shootings, which police believe are connected.

On Wednesday, police said they had identified a woman who police wanted to question about the homicide. The woman, whose identity was not released, was not arrested, police said.

Ahmed was found by police in an alley behind 135A Carruthers Avenue around 4 a.m. Monday with multiple gunshot wounds to his chest after a neighbour in the area reported seeing his lifeless body in the laneway. Multiple shots had been fired just minutes before and police had descended on Carruthers looking for assailants or any wounded people. Investigators believe his shooting was targeted.