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Police have just handcuffed one man #ottnews pic.twitter.com/CUpyebJ29z — Shaamini Yogaretnam (@shaaminiwhy) July 14, 2015

Throughout the morning, tactical officers and the police canine unit, bolstered by patrol officers, swept through alleyways in the densely packed neighbourhood. Police used loud speakers to call on the suspect to surrender.

Around 11 a.m., tactical officers breached the door of unit 52 and found an injured man inside. The man, who had injuries to his face and appeared to be limping, was combative as officers pressed him against a police vehicle. Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit — which investigates when civilians are seriously injured or killed in dealings with the police — was called in and has invoked its mandate in the incident. No gun has yet been recovered.

A neighbour who asked only to be identified as Mark was woken up by the sound of gunfire.

“I heard about four, five gunshots. I heard someone screaming so I ran out the front door,” he said.

He saw a black man on the ground who had been on the ground shot and was being attended to by a police officer. Mark said he saw the woman who lives at the unit trying to leave with some other men. Those men fled without her and the woman was later taken away by police for questioning.

Neighbours said there had been a party in the unit, which is known in the community as a drug house. They said they heard multiple shots, and then saw two people who had blood on them fleeing the unit. Fights are frequent in the park that the unit backs on to, they said.

“This is not a new problem,” said a neighbour named Samuel, who wouldn’t give his last name because he is scared of the people in the house. “People complain (about the issue). They (police) don’t listen.”