Shots fired into Penny Drive room with 4 children playing inside
No one injured in Wednesday evening shooting, police say
Multiple shots were fired into the room of a home on Penny Drive where four children were playing, Ottawa police say.
It happened Wednesday at about 8:45 p.m. at a home in the 2900-block of Penny Drive, near Carling Avenue and Richmond Road in the Bayshore neighbourhood.
The shots entered an upper window at the back of the home, police said.
"We don't believe those kids were targeted, but when you're shooting at a house and it goes through a window and you've got four kids playing in the room where the window was, yeah, it's very concerning," said Ottawa police spokesman Const. Marc Soucy.
At the Ottawa Community Housing development on Thursday evening, people said the incident worries them.
"I was in school this afternoon and I heard my buddy talking about some shots in the west end at Bayshore mall. ... And I said ... I've got to go and check on my mom and my two nieces because they live right here, they live right on Penny Drive, so I had to come and check them out," said Rashiek Webster.
"I have to make sure they're OK, because you never know what's going to happen. ... After 10, [my mother] doesn't open the door any more. It's not a bad neighbourhood, but sometimes you just have to open your eyes to see what's going on. It's crazy."
"It's scary, it's too close to my home," Hooper said.
"I arrived when all the cops were here. It's getting too close to home."
The guns and gangs unit is investigating, police said. Any witnesses are asked to come forward.
Anyone with information is asked to call the guns and gangs unit at 613-236-1222, ext. 5050. Anonymous tips can be submitted by calling Crime Stoppers at 613-233-8477(TIPS), toll free at 1-800-222-8477.