No decisions made in Villanueva police shooting: Quebec Crown

Quebec's Crown prosecutor office is denying reports no charges will be laid against a Montreal police officer who shot a teenager dead this summer.

The criminal and penal prosecutions office hasn't yet decided what course of action it will take in the Fredy Villanueva case, spokeswoman Martine Bérubé told CBC News on Friday.

Villanueva, 18, was shot and killed by an officer in August during a late-night confrontation in a Montreal North parking lot.

The shooting sparked a riot in the borough and damaged what were already strained relations between Montreal police and youth in the neighbourhood.

Both officers involved in the shooting claim it was self-defence, a hypothesis the Crown's office seems prepared to accept, according to reports in Montreal newspaper La Presse.

The Crown office is still analyzing a police report on the Aug. 9 shooting, and it will take time to review it thoroughly before any decisions are made, said Bérubé.

Three Crown prosecutors are working on the police report, which was handed over to their office earlier this week.