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Ottawa police are setting up a special task force to investigate “all unsolved gang-related homicides” in the city.
The task force, announced Thursday, brings together officers from the major crime, guns and gangs and street crime units.
“Investigators believe that some of the same individuals are involved in multiple (homicides) in the city,” police said in a release announcing the task force. “The investigative team is exploring those potential linkages between these (homicides).”
Ottawa is facing a near record number of homicides in 2016 — 22 with more than two weeks left in the year.
The most recent victim of a gang-style killing was 17-year-old Leslie Mwakio, who was shot in the head as he sat behind the wheel of a silver Jeep on Bayswater Avenue on Dec. 6. There have been no arrests.
Police suspect the killing was part of a violent feud among Mwakio’s associates.
Police are also dealing with soaring numbers of shootings, more than 60 so far this year, although the total includes bullets fired into walls and doors and through windows where no one was hurt.
A 2015 report on the city’s gang strategy estimates there are more than 400 gang members in Ottawa, although the gangs might be made up of “loosely connected individuals” involved in street crime.
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The task force, announced Thursday, brings together officers from the major crime, guns and gangs and street crime units.
“Investigators believe that some of the same individuals are involved in multiple (homicides) in the city,” police said in a release announcing the task force. “The investigative team is exploring those potential linkages between these (homicides).”
Ottawa is facing a near record number of homicides in 2016 — 22 with more than two weeks left in the year.
The most recent victim of a gang-style killing was 17-year-old Leslie Mwakio, who was shot in the head as he sat behind the wheel of a silver Jeep on Bayswater Avenue on Dec. 6. There have been no arrests.
Police suspect the killing was part of a violent feud among Mwakio’s associates.
Police are also dealing with soaring numbers of shootings, more than 60 so far this year, although the total includes bullets fired into walls and doors and through windows where no one was hurt.
A 2015 report on the city’s gang strategy estimates there are more than 400 gang members in Ottawa, although the gangs might be made up of “loosely connected individuals” involved in street crime.
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