Montreal Police Are Investigating 2 Recent Shootings That Happened Within 8 Hours
One shooting happened near where Denis Coderre was campaigning on Wednesday.
Gun violence in our city has been on the rise for the past few months now. Recently, Montreal police received 911 calls for two separate shootings in the city. The first happened during the afternoon around 3:50 p.m., where multiple civilians reported hearing gunshots fired at the corner of Émile-Journault and 9th Avenue in Saint-Michel.
SPVM spokesperson Caroline Chèvrefils told MTL Blog that when police arrived on the scene, they found a 23-year-old man who had been shot in the upper body. He was then transported to the hospital and we're told that his life is not in danger.
J'\u00c9TAIS L\u00c0, \u00e0 moins de 50 m\u00e8tres, #LIVE, en porte-\u00e0-porte avec @DenisCoderre quand c'est arriv\u00e9. \n\nIl y a une garderie tout pr\u00e8s. Des citoyens nous disaient que c'\u00e9tait la 3e fois en peu de temps. \u00c7a va faire ! \n\n#S\u00e9curit\u00e9Maintenant \n\n@EnsembleMtlhttps://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2021/09/15/un-homme-atteint-par-balles-en-plein-jour-dans-saint-michel\u00a0\u2026— Guillaume Lavoie (@Guillaume Lavoie) 1631749656
City council candidate Guillaume Lavoie from Ensemble Montréal tweeted that he and Denis Coderre were campaigning door-to-door right next to where the shooting happened. There is a daycare nearby. Some citizens told us that it was the 3rd time in a short time," Lavoie wrote.
The second shooting happened just after 12 a.m. on Thursday, September 16, only eight hours after the other shooting, in an apartment on rue Despréaux, which left a 29-year-old man wounded in the upper body. He was brought to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
"There was an altercation that happened in the apartment between several people and that's when gunshots were fired," Chèvrefils explained. "One or several suspects fled the scene before the arrival of the police."
The investigations for both incidents are ongoing and no arrests have been made in connection to the two shootings as of yet.