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In a statement released to media, Bordeleau said retaliation for the gangland killing isn’t an “immediate concern” for the force but “it is always troubling when something like this happens in our community.”

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Bordeleau confirmed that he had been on scene speaking to neighbours to assure them that police are investigating the homicide and other incidents of gang-related violence as a “top priority.”

The victim, Ibrahim, has a criminal record, most notably for riding in a car that was involved in a notorious drive-by shooting at a southside Tim Hortons in January 2008. Ibrahim was riding in the back seat of the car when another man fired at men in the parking lot of the Tim Hortons on Walkley Road.

A .44-calibre Smith & Wesson revolver was later recovered by police from the car. Ibrahim admitted that he knew a gun was in the car but only in the minutes right before the shooting was carried out. For his role in that shooting, he was sentenced to a year in prison.

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His co-accused in that shooting read like a who’s who of notable Crips members in Ottawa, and they have resurfaced on police radar in 2014. The trigger man in the Tim Hortons drive-by shooting was Ahmed Zalal, brother of Mohamed Zalal, a leader of the Ledbury-Banff Crips who was shot in the back of the head while he was driven down the Queensway in 2006. His body was later dumped in a field in Vars.

Abdulaziz Abdullah and Hussein Mohammad, both arrested last summer as part of the guns and gangs unit’s Project Karma were in that same vehicle in the 2008 shooting after which both pleaded guilty to occupying a motor vehicle knowing that a gun was inside. Abdullah also faced weapons-related offences in Calgary after a shooting in that city. Those charges were stayed.