Ottawa Police are investigating the first shooting of the year. 

Police were called to Riga Private in the west end after reports of shots fired just after 4 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015. Police say a man in his twenties was shot twice in the back.

The man was transported to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. His condition has since been updated to critical.

The Guns and Gangs unit is investigating.