CBC readjusted title to “mass killing”.
In fact, the incident was not a shooting. Later Thursday, Staff Sgt. Jeff Pilon, one of the leads of the homicide unit, told CBC there was no shooting on Berrigan Drive.
A shooting inside a townhouse is not what most people would understand as a mass shooting anyway.
Completely unrelated, congrats to CBC for using OSM instead of GoogleMaps. First time I’ve noticed it.
They changed the title because it apparently wasn’t a shooting, not because of potential connotations of “mass shooting.”
A previous version of this story called the incident a mass shooting, based on an interview with police Chief Eric Stubbs. In fact, it was not a shooting. The cause of death has not yet officially been released.
I also said so myself?
told CBC there was no shooting
I’ll edit my comment to fix this ambiguity.
Thanks for the heads up, I’ve edited the title to reflect the change.
Is it fucked up that I’m glad it wasn’t a shooting for political reasons, but also sad because anything less than a shooting was probably a hundred times more painful and terrifying for the victims?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Six people — four children and two adults — were killed in what Ottawa’s police chief called a mass shooting inside a townhouse in the suburb of Barrhaven late Wednesday night.
A male, who police also haven’t identified, was arrested at the scene about 15 kilometres south of Ottawa’s downtown core.
In an interview with CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning, police Chief Eric Stubbs said the force can’t yet comment about the relationship, if any, between the victims and the suspect.
Nepean MPP Lisa MacLeod, whose riding includes this part of Barrhaven, said the community woke up to shock and grief.
On social media, Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe called it “one of the most shocking incidents of violence in our city’s history.”
Wilson Lo, who represents the area, said on social media that he was “saddened to learn of the tragic loss of six Barrhaven neighbours,” and that his thoughts are with their loved ones and people close by.
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Sadly, I heard it called Warrhaven in my time there at least once.
Hope this isn’t a growing trend, and I hope they can resolve this quickly, of course.
I’ve never heard that before and I’ve lived in Ottawa for almost 20 years. The only one I’ve heard of is FARhaven because it’s a quiet suburb.