2 suspects arrested, 2 more at large after overnight shooting and police chase in Montreal
Security perimeter in Montreal East municipality lifted after officers spent hours searching area
Montreal police have arrested two suspects and are still looking for two others following an overnight shooting that led to hours of searching in the eastern part of the island.
At around midnight, police received a 911 call about a shooting near the corner of Maurice-Duplessis Boulevard and 27th Avenue in Montreal's Rivière-des-Prairies neighbourhood.
Shortly after the shooting, police located and followed a speeding vehicle in the area. That vehicle crashed, and two suspects were arrested at the scene. Two others ran off.
Police set up a security perimeter and asked the public to avoid a commercial and industrial area in the municipality of Montreal East — between Metropolitain East Boulevard, Henri-Bourassa Boulevard, Marien Avenue and Broadway Avenue.
Investigators believed that one of the suspects was located inside that perimeter. The perimeter has since been lifted and the search in that area has ended with no new arrests. The search included an armoured vehicle, the canine unit and a helicopter from the Sûreté du Québec.
The victim was a 25-year-old woman, whose condition is now stable after she suffered serious injuries.
The two suspects who were arrested are two men aged 18 and 23. Police say one weapon was recovered near the vehicle that crashed.
On Wednesday, another woman suffered minor injuries during a shooting in Rivière-des-Prairies. That same night, a 26-year-old man was killed in a separate shooting in Montréal-Nord.