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The man shot dead in a hail of gunfire outside a troubled west-end eatery Sunday morning in the city’s second weekend homicide was once under investigation for his suspected role in the 2014 unsolved killing of Jabeir Jemmie.

Abdi Jama, 26, also known by the street name “Ajax,” was shot multiple times around 6 a.m. in a Shillington Avenue parking lot where a large group had congregated.

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Jama had previously been inside eatery The Suya Spot, long heralded by nearby residents and police as a problem area. The restaurant is well-known to anti-gang and drug officers for its clientele.

Police believe Jama’s death is gang-related.

Once shots were fired, Jama was carted into a black Cadillac SUV and driven to the nearby Royal Ottawa Hospital in a clear attempt to get the bullet-riddled man medical attention.

Police received multiple 911 calls alerting them to the gunfire, but found no victims once they arrived to the parking lot at Shillington Avenue and Merivale Road. Staff at the Royal alerted police and paramedics that Jama was at that hospital, where doctors attempted to work on him until paramedics arrived and took him to the Civic’s trauma centre, where the 26-year-old was pronounced dead.