An 18-year-old man is dead following a Sunday evening shooting in Ottawa’s Centretown neighbourhood.
Emergency crews responded to reports of a shooting in the area of Percy and Nepean streets just before 9:45 p.m.
“I was sitting on the couch watching TV, heard a couple of shots, I think like five would be my guess,” said a witness who only wanted to be identified by his first name, Devon.
“Come out onto the balcony and then I look down and I see people running…There’s like a pathway between the apartment building and like that smaller building. So, they ran along there and then in front of the other building and they had an argument in front of the bushes there.”
Devon told CTV News Ottawa he saw people “loaded the (victim) into the SUV, there’s a pile of blood there.”
The Ottawa Police Service says the Homicide Unit is now …