CBC News

A Toronto mother has trav­elled to Cal­gary where her son Ab­dul­lahi Ahmed was slain in an early-morn­ing New Year’s shoot­ing that sent six other peo­ple to hos­pi­tal.
• Cal­gary shoot­ing: 1 dead, 6 oth­ers in­jured at New Year’s party

The 27-year-old died af­ter he was shot Thurs­day morn­ing at a New Year’s Eve party that went well into the morn­ing at a res­i­dence in the city’s south­west.

Ahmed left Toronto for Cal­gary six years ago.
News of his death spread quickly through Toron­to’s So­mali com­mu­nity.

“My re­ac­tion is one of sad­ness,” said Ahmed Hus­sein, na­tional pres­i­dent of the Cana­dian So­mali Con­gress.
He said Toron­to’s So­mali com­mu­nity is wor­ried about the shoot­ing given the his­tory of young men from his com­mu­nity who get hurt or are killed in Al­berta gang vi­o­lence.

“In the past there were the deaths of over three dozen Cana­dian-So­mali males in Al­berta,” Hus­sein told CBC News. “This had con­tin­ued from 2008 to 2011.”

It’s not yet clear if the New Year’s Day shoot­ing in Cal­gary was gang-re­lated.
Shoot­ing hap­pened early on New Year’s Day
A to­tal of seven peo­ple were shot at about 5 a.m. MT. Po­lice found five vic­tims in and around a house in the 1900 block of 36th Street S.W. Two other peo­ple later showed up at lo­cal hos­pi­tals for treat­ment.
Those in­jured in the shoot­ings are both male and fe­male, and range in age from their early 20s to early 30s.
A fe­male vic­tim orig­i­nally listed in crit­i­cal con­di­tion has been up­graded to sta­ble con­di­tion in a Cal­gary hos­pi­tal.
The other vic­tims suf­fered in­juries that range from mi­nor to se­ri­ous.
Po­lice don’t know if the shoot­ing was tar­geted or ran­dom. At least 50 peo­ple were at the party when the shoot­ing started.
Cal­gary po­lice ques­tioned at least 15 peo­ple and re­port that many are not co­op­er­at­ing with their in­ves­ti­ga­tion.
Po­lice are reach­ing out to mem­bers of Cal­gar­y’s So­mali com­mu­nity, ask­ing them for in­for­ma­tion about the shoot­ing.