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Man wounded in leg as Ottawa police investigate 2 shootings in 24 hours

Police are investigating Ottawa's eighth and ninth shootings in two weeks, after a man was shot in the leg Saturday night in the city's Vanier neighbourhood.

Montreal Road shooting likely gang-related, say police

(Jean-Sebastien Marier/Radio-Canada)

A man was shot in the legSaturday night in the second of two instances of gunplay in Ottawa within 24 hours.

Officers were called to Montreal Road and Bradley Avenuein the city's Vanier neighbourhoodat around 10:30 p.m., where they found a male victim who'd been shot in the lower leg.

The shooting victim was attempting to run away from an unidentified black man in his early 20s wearing a suit, said police, when the shooter fired multiple rounds from a semi-automatic handgun.

The victim was hit at least once, said police. He is known to the force's guns and gangs unit and is refusing to cooperate with the investigation, police said.

The shooting is believed to be gang-related, police added.

No injuries in earlier shooting

The Vanier shooting was the city's ninth in the past two weeks and the second in Ottawa in less than 24 hours.

At around 6 a.m. Saturday, policewere called to Shillington Avenue and Merivale Road after receiving reports that shots had been fired.

Patrons at a nearby restaurant refused to give any information about the shooting, but officers with the guns and gangs unit later determined that two shots had been fired, including one they believe went into a vehicle that had stopped on Shillington, police said.

The vehicle immediately sped away after the gun went off, and police say it's not known if anyone was injured.

Saturday's shootings were the 39th and 40thso far in 2015.

Anyone with information about either shooting cancontact the guns and gangs unitat 613-236-1222 ext. 5050. Anonymous tips can be submitted by callingCrime Stoppers toll-free at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).

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