Twenty-one-year-old Ibrahim Mugassabi is facing charges after the July 31 stabbing on Cartier Street.
Charges laid after downtown stabbing
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Month: July 2014
‘Elevator from hell’ may be on the road to repair.
Eric Murphy, Centretown News The apartment building at 255 Metcalfe St. has been without an elevator for four months.After four months of being out of service, the lone elevator in the eight-storey apartment building at 255 Metcalfe St. should be working soon, says Gary Beach, the building’s landlord.
Centretown’s crime rate well above city average, but getting lower
The crime rate in Somerset Ward was more than three times higher than the rest of Ottawa last year.
According to the Ottawa Police Service’s 2013 “Crime, Police, and Traffic Statistics Report,” Centretown had a rate of more than 12,000 offenses per 100,000 people in 2013. The city average was roughly 3,700 offenses per 100,000 people.
Centretown also had the highest crime rate of any city ward. The Rideau-Vanier ward did have more crimes against persons and property than Centretown, but it had far fewer “other offences,” such as bail violations, weapon violations, or breach of probation.
War memorial back open to the public
Eric Murphy, Centretown News A close up of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which has been walled of for six months during renovations.Earlier this week, the grey wooden walls went down around Ottawa’s National War Memorial, revealing its bronze soldiers and stone tomb to the public for the first time in six months.