Montreal

Man killed in Montreal parking lot hours after fatal shooting in Côte-des-Neiges

Montreal police say the victim suffered an upper body injury caused by a firearm.

Victim suffered upper body injury caused by firearm, police say

Officers stand in front of Montreal police cruisers parked at night.
Police say the victim was a 28-year-old man. (Alain Béland/Radio-Canada)

Police are investigating a fatal shooting in Montreal's Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough.

The Service de police de la Ville de Montréal police (SPVM) say they received a call around 3 a.m. Wednesday, reporting that a man had been found unconscious in a business parking lot.

The victim, a 28-year-old man, was pronounced dead when police and Urgences-Santé paramedics arrived. 

SPVM Const. Jean-Pierre Brabant confirmed the man died from gunshot injuries. He said the man was found lying on the ground, and first responders immediately saw he was suffering from gunshot wounds. They performed CPR but later declared him dead.

The SPVM's major crime unit has been assigned to the case. No suspects have been identified.

Police have set up a security perimeter around the site where the body was found, on Boulevard Henri-Bourassa West, near the intersection of Bois-de-Boulogne Avenue, in the Nouveau-Bordeaux neighbourhood.

The shooting took place a little less than 12 hours after the killing of a 39-year-old woman in a parking lot on Jean-Talon Street West, near the intersection with de la Savane Street, in Montreal's Côte-des-Neiges district.

Police have yet to make any arrests and say they have not yet found a link between the homicides, the eighth and ninth on the island of Montreal since the beginning of 2023.

With files from Shawn Lyons and La Presse Canadienne