Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe called the Saturday night shooting that left two people dead and six injured outside a south Ottawa wedding reception “shocking” and argued it backs up his push to devote more police resources to fighting gun crime.
“It’s very concerning, and it’s shocking frankly, when you hear about a shooting of this nature happening in the south end of Ottawa,” he said in an interview on Monday. “My thoughts are with all the residents in that area. It must have been very, very disturbing to them to hear about this event.”
Police provided no further information on Monday about the
