A Wedding Full of Witnesses and a Unit That Says They Have Not Told It Everything: Ottawa’s Homicide Unit Renews Its Appeal Three Years After Two Toronto Men Were Killed Outside the Infinity Convention Centre (September 3, 2026)

OTTAWA — This is not a story that broke today. The shooting outside the Infinity Convention Centre happened on September 2, 2023. What is new is what the Ottawa Police Service put in writing on Thursday, September 3, 2026 at 11:00 a.m.: three years on, the Homicide Unit believes people who were at that wedding still have not told it everything they know.

That is an unusually direct thing for a police service to publish. Most anniversary appeals ask whether anyone saw anything. This one states that investigators believe the witnesses exist, were present, and are holding back.

Two Victims From Toronto, Killed in Ottawa

Both men who died are listed by the Ottawa Police Service as residents of Toronto. They were killed at a wedding celebration in Ottawa’s south end. The force has never explained that geography publicly, and this briefing does not attempt to.

Nor has the OPS said anything about the six wounded — whether they were guests, whether any has cooperated, or whether any is among the people the unit believes has more to say. Three years of releases have added names to the dead and nothing to the living.

The Sentence That Carries the Appeal

Read plainly, the operative passage is a statement about a room. A wedding is a closed, invited, largely known group of people. Investigators are saying that group contains knowledge the file has not received.

The release then offers the softer version — that information which seemed insignificant at the time could still move the case forward. That framing lowers the cost of coming forward, and it is standard. But the harder sentence is the one that sits above it, and the force chose to publish it on the record rather than leave it to inference.

Eight People Shot, No Suspect Ever Described

What makes the silence conspicuous is the scale. Eight people were struck by gunfire outside an occupied venue on a Saturday night. In three years the Ottawa Police Service has released no suspect image, no suspect description, no vehicle, no direction of flight and no number of shooters.

There is more than one reason a homicide unit withholds that material, and holdback evidence is routine in an open file. What can be said from the public record alone is that nothing of the kind has ever been made public here, and that the unit is still asking a wedding guest list for help.

What Is Not Claimed

The Ottawa Police Service has not described this shooting as targeted and has named no criminal organization in connection with it at any point. Neither does this briefing. The killings of Said Mohamed Ali and Abdishakur Abdi-Dahir remain unsolved on the public record.