Victimless shooting in Old Montreal
Shots were fired in Old Montreal after bar-closing time Sunday morning, but although suspects have been arrested, no victims have turned up.
QMI is also reporting on a victimless shooting earlier in the week in which a St-Léonard resto-bar was shot up on Tuesday evening but nobody got hurt even though it was evening and there were customers inside. The writer links it with earlier instances of gang violence.
Tim F 13:26 on 2019-10-13 Permalink
I was wondering, do we have a running tally of murders this year? I feel like I’m seeing more shootings in 2019 than in 2018…
Dhomas 16:29 on 2019-10-13 Permalink
On the sidebar of this very site, you’ll find a link to a semi-official homicide map and tally. We seem to be at 11 so far this year, where we were at about 22 at the same time last year.
I do agree that violence seems to be getting reported more often lately, though possibly non-fatal violence.
Kate 17:02 on 2019-10-13 Permalink
My sidebar also includes links to the Google homicide maps made by regular commenter Kevin, although he’s only got 11 so far this year on-island. This was the 12th, I believe, and all told it’s a very low number.
There have been a lot of nonfatal shootings, stabbings too. I’ve seen theories about the decline in homicides being partly attibutable to better trauma care – not just here but everywhere. But I think in years with more killings the journalists who cover those beats might not have taken the trouble to report some teenage kid cutting another in a semi suburb.
I also suspect that some of the attacks are deliberately nonfatal and more in the nature of warnings.
Chris 19:47 on 2019-10-13 Permalink
Kate, Tim may be on mobile, I don’t think the sidebar is visible there.
Dhomas 13:45 on 2019-10-14 Permalink
I can see the sidebar on mobile. There isn’t really a mobile site. It looks the same whether I’m on mobile or desktop.
Kate 08:11 on 2019-10-15 Permalink
dhomas, there’s supposed to be a stripped-down mobile site, but it’s erratic. To be honest, I need to do some serious WordPress housecleaning and updating on this site, but it may have to wait for the Christmas break, because it’ll need a time when news is slow and I have some concentrated time off.
Kevin 11:34 on 2019-10-15 Permalink
There have been fewer murders than other years. Nationwide they were on a long, downward trend, hitting a low point in 2013, while Quebec had its lowest number ever in 2016.
Since 2013 the number of murders went up across the country, but it’s still below the number of killings from the ’70s to about 2000.
Because of that drop in murders, reporters are writing about non-fatal crimes that they would never have covered previously.