By CLARA HO, SUN MEDIA
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
An autopsy has been set for Tuesday morning to determine the identity and cause of death of the city's latest homicide victim, who was found dead at the wheel of a car yesterday afternoon.
Meanwhile, the Edmonton Somali community is mourning after learning the victim was one of their own.
“I don't know what is happening here the whole community is very shaken up. It's very scary,” said Mohamed Abdi, communications co-ordinator of the Somali Canadian Cultural Society of Edmonton.
Officers responded to the area of 105 Street and 106 Avenue after reports that shots had been fired around 1:15 p.m.
When they arrived, they found the body of a man slumped in the driver's seat of a tan sedan in an alley behind a commercial strip.
The building that houses the A & S Laundromat, Maca Halal Meats and the African Safari Restaurant was taped off as well as a neighbouring house and part of the back alley.
No suspects have been identified and police are urging anyone with information to come forward.
This was the city's 25th homicide of the year and the second Somali to be killed this month.
Earlier this month, 21-year-old Abdulaziz Osman Isse was shot to death. His body was discovered behind a dumpster at a west-end synagogue.
Source: Edmonton Sun, Dec 01, 2009