Two arrested after bullet fired through window

Gatineau police arrested a man and a woman at a Mont-Bleu apartment complex on Saturday night after a bullet shattered a balcony window on a nearby street the night before, injuring a young woman.

Tactical officers entered the back of the eight-storey building at 8 Radisson St. around noon. There were already several police cars on the grounds of Les Jardins Radisson before a mobile command unit arrived.

Police said Saturday night that no charges had yet been laid.

On Friday just after 8 p.m., someone shot a bullet through a balcony window on Tassé Street. The bullet didn’t strike anyone but a woman received facial injuries from the broken glass. She didn’t require hospital treatment.

The woman declined to comment on Saturday.

Many residents of the Radisson Street apartment complex didn’t know why police cars were all over the property. Residents said police dogs combed the grounds earlier in the day.

By mid-afternoon, police had restricted vehicular access to the interior roadways of the apartment complex, letting people drive out but not return. A line of cars had formed at the front gate of the complex.

Gatineau police were investigating the apartment complex in the Mont Bleu district on Saturday after a bullet went through the balcony window of a unit on nearby Tassé Street. An STO bus arrived to keep people warm.

An Ottawa Police Service cruiser was also on the scene.

Police started removing the security perimeter early Saturday evening.

Pierre Jacques said he was in his apartment lobby at 8 Radisson St. on Saturday when a woman asked him where she could find a pay phone.

Jacques offered her the use of his cellphone.

“She looked anxious and really nervous, and she was pacing,” he said.

When Jacques left the building, police signalled him over and asked why he was talking with the woman.

“That’s when they told me she was a suspect in a shooting of some sort that happened (Friday) night,” Jacques said.

He spent about two hours with police Saturday morning providing a description of the woman: He described her as being about 5-foot-10, wearing “scrappy ” jeans and appearing anxious. Jacques had never seen her in the building before.

Tactical officers pulled up to a back entrance of 8 Radisson in a brown van with dark tinted windows. Patrol officers, who were stationed near the door, helped residents leave the building and find their way off the property through a zigzag of cruisers and past a mobile command post.

On Saturday afternoon, no police were outside the apartment that was hit by the bullet on Friday night. All of the police activity was concentrated on the Radisson apartment complex.

People who live in the Mont-Bleu neighbourhood described a heavy police presence after the shooting.

Caroline Levasseur said she saw police running and yelling on Friday night. News of a shooting near her home didn’t shake her. “It’s not the first time,” she said. The neighbourhood also saw heightened police activity last month when a fire forced the evacuation of a small apartment building on Tassé Street. Police charged a man with arson.