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Christina Voelzing, the 24-year-old woman shot on Easter Sunday died overnight and Ottawa police are investigating the city’s sixth homicide of the year.

“The … shooting victim succumbed to her injuries overnight,” Ottawa police said in a release. “The Major Crime Section is now investigating the homicide of Christina Voelzing.”

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The woman lost vital signs on Easter Sunday after being shot in the neck and had been on life support.

Homicide detectives said Tuesday that the shooting that sent Christina Voelzing to the hospital with critical injuries around 5 a.m. Sunday was not random, but that she might not have been the target. Other people were inside unit D of 11 Sonnet Cres., a four-unit building near Old Richmond Road and Moodie Drive, when Voelzing was shot. Police are probing whether any of those people were the intended targets of the shooting.

Voelzing was found unconscious inside the home after neighbours heard several gunshots and a loud bang hours before the gunfire. She had no vital signs once at hospital. Voelzing was revived and taken into surgery. She was on life support at her family’s request but was not expected to recover from her injuries.