Steven Frenette wanted for murder in McLeod Street shooting

Ottawa police have issued a Canada-wide warrant for 33-year-old Steven Frenette in the fatal shooting of a 32-year-old man in Centretown on Saturday afternoon.

• Man killed inMcLeod Street shooting

Police warned that Frenette, who isfacing a first-degree murder charge, is considered armed and dangerous.

The man killed has been identified asLee John Joseph Germain.

Ottawa paramedics were called to 571 McLeod St.just before 4:30 p.m. on Saturday to find Germain critically injured.

He wasrushed to hospital but died of his injuries.

Jasmine Alward, who lives on the first floor of the Centretown building, said she heard a loud bang coming from upstairs.

"It sounded like someone pulled a stove over onto the floor or something, it was almost like an explosion," she said.

"Then the fire alarm went off for a couple of minutes the woman who ran down the stairs is the tenant's mother and she said 'Call 911, someone's breaking in.'"

Alward said she's lived there for almost 11 years and doesn't know either the suspect or the victim, but said the third floor apartment where the shooting happened has been a problem for years.

"It's almost like Grand Central Station. It's always busy. The people who live there and her family [come and go]but there's always others that Idon't know or don't recognize."

Soha Kneen lives next door and said a mother and her two young daughters live in that unit but she didn't believe they were home at the time.

"It's not like we feel unsafe," she said.

"It's not wonderful at all what happened, it was quite terrifying seeing everybody run away and hearing the shots you don't really believe you hear shots until you realize the panic outside it was bad."

Germain's death marks Ottawa's 21sthomicide of the year.

Anyone with information about Frenette's whereabouts is asked to call police.