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On the day of Marwan Arab’s funeral, the man believed to be the intended target of the shooting that took his life appeared in court after being arrested in a raid that doubled as a pre-emptive police strike against a plan to exact revenge for the killing.

A total of seven people were arrested Tuesday evening in a raid by the guns and gangs unit that has ties to suspected drug activity and human trafficking. The arrests resulted in more than 30 charges against the collective. Three people were arrested Tuesday evening at a home on Castlefrank Road in Kanata and four others were arrested in a traffic stop near Arnprior.

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A search warrant executed at the Kanata home Wednesday afternoon turned up a 12-gauge shotgun.

Marwan Arab, 20, was shot in the head Sunday evening at Shifa Restaurant on Cobden Road. He died instantly. His cousin, Ayyub Arab, 22, was shot once in the hand and twice in the chest but narrowly survived. The Citizen has learned that neither of the Arab cousins was the intended victim of what homicide detectives maintain was a targeted shooting.