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Ottawa police are investigating the city’s 30th shooting of the year — the same number as from all of 2013 — after a woman had shots fired at her in a backyard in the Alta Vista neighbourhood Monday night.

Police responded to a report of two shots fired on Station Boulevard around 9:30 p.m., and found one casing and one unspent casing from a 22-calibre firearm, believed to be a pistol.

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Though police say the shooting was targeted, no one was injured and it is not believed to be gang-related.

As with the majority of the ongoing shooting files this year, the guns and gangs unit is investigating.

Though there haven’t been charges laid in the bulk of 2014’s shootings, acting Staff Sgt. Ken Bryden said police are still actively pursuing leads and receiving information, even in situations where witnesses and victims refuse to co-operate with police.

“With those phone calls and that intell that we do get, we leverage that information as best as we can,” Bryden says.