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Four investigators and three forensic investigators from the SIU have been assigned to the case, and Ottawa police are no longer commenting on the case.

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According to earlier reports, two people were injured in the store: a man in his 40s was taken to hospital in serious but stable condition and a woman sustained minor injuries.

Two areas were cordoned off with police tape Sunday night — the parking lot of the Island Park Metro at the corner of Wellington and Carleton, and a stretch of Spencer Avenue between Gilchrist Avenue and Western Avenue.

On Monday morning, the Metro store was locked, but there were no police cars or yellow crime scene tape there. Officers in two cruisers were parked outside the home under construction a block away on Spencer Street near Western Avenue, near where the shooting took place.

Eric Slankis, who lives on Western Avenue, a few houses south from the corner of Spencer Street, said he heard four or five gunshots in quick succession around 7 p.m. He poked his head out the back door.

“I heard something that sounded like, ‘Hold your fire,’ or something like that,” said Slankis.

He moved to the front door, and found that the street was swarming with police cars. He estimated there were between nine and 11 cruisers in the area. He did not fear for his safety. Police officers had gone to their cruisers and were looking for first-aid kits, he said.

“Everything was sort of done,” he said.

About 10 minutes later, police officers carried a man out from between a house under construction at the corner of Western Avenue and Spencer Street and a neighbouring house. They were administering CPR. Slankis could not see much, but the man appeared to be lifeless.

A woman who lives on Gilchrist said she had heard three gunshots at 7:05 p.m. and believed the sound had come from the area around Spencer Street. Police were already at the scene at the time, said the woman, who declined to give her name.

“We’re not used to this around here,” she said.

Another witness said police were pursuing someone and yelling, “Go, go, go!”

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