Police blotter: shooting, stabbing
A man was shot in an alley in Verdun late Saturday afternoon, no arrests yet.
Later, there was a fight in Villeray St-Michel involving about twenty people, in the course of which two men were badly wounded including one who got stabbed in the head.
Update: The man wounded in the head has died. The brief CP piece still calls the location Villeray, and says it’s the eighth homicide this year on the island of Montreal.
Jonathan 08:50 on 2019-07-21 Permalink
Kate, you used to be a stickler for media mis identifying neighbourhoods in Montreal! That stabbing happened in Saint-Michel, not Villeray. The easternmost border of Villeray is Papineau. #justsaying
Kate 09:09 on 2019-07-21 Permalink
Thank you, Jonathan. Curiously, the boundary with Rosemont borough runs right along Bélanger there too. I’m not sure I could’ve sworn to the line between Villeray and St-Michel either – some of the strict boundaries escape me, like the one between Petite-Patrie and Rosemont, and the one between Côte St-Paul and Ville-Émard.
I was going to make some further remark in this post about how long it had been since the last homicide, at the end of March, then I had a look at Kevin’s homicide map. Somehow I missed mention of this homicide on June 28 in Pointe-aux-Trembles. So we’ve really only gone six weeks or so without one. Previous to that, the last one was March 29.
Ian Rogers 11:39 on 2019-07-23 Permalink
That’s a pretty weird place for a full on street brawl. Crazy to make it to the age of 50 just to die of a stab wound to the head in a relatively quiet part of town… I’d love to know what that fight was about.