Two overnight shootings #mtlcrime
One man’s car was shot at in Ahuntsic and another man was shot in a Dorval parking lot early Thursday. No fatalities, no clues.
Update: La Presse’s Daniel Renaud counts six instances of shots fired since the beginning of the year.
walkerp 09:39 on 2020-01-09 Permalink
The gun death numbers are trying to get a head start on the car death numbers after being so badly outperformed last year.
Kate 09:50 on 2020-01-09 Permalink
walkerp, nobody has died yet from homicide this year (that we know of).
walkerp 10:27 on 2020-01-09 Permalink
I didn’t say they were succeeding! 😉
Blork 16:48 on 2020-01-09 Permalink
Kate, maybe you should add a “Gun Deaths” line to your scoreboard.
JP 20:31 on 2020-01-09 Permalink
I feel like I’ve been hearing of more and more shootings lately…and around neighbourhoods that are close to me or that I visit. I hope this isn’t a trend that’s here to stay in Montreal. It’s particularly alarming that the victim in the Ahuntsic shooting says he has no idea why he was targeted…
Kate 23:15 on 2020-01-09 Permalink
JP, as Kevin said here recently, the very fact that we have so little crime means that minor incidents get reported here as they wouldn’t be, in a more violent city.
As for that guy – chances are the shooters made a mistake over the vehicle and he wasn’t the intended target at all. I still think about that poor old guy who was shot dead outside a north-end Italian café a couple of years ago because he bore a slight resemblance to a mobster some guys were gunning for. It happens.
Dhomas 21:19 on 2020-01-10 Permalink
@JP: if I were a criminal that was not yet “known to police”, I’d also say I have no idea why I was targeted.
@Kate: about Montreal having very little crime, I completely agree. I have a colleague who lives around Seattle who told me a couple of years back while I was visiting that there are so many home invasions (apparently due to the opioid epidemic), that they don’t even bother reporting on them. At the time, the news of the now-convicted murderer/home invader (from a few posts above) was still fresh in my memory, so I found it odd that this could be so common elsewhere.
Kate 09:15 on 2020-01-11 Permalink
Dhomas, you make a good point. Everyone “known to police” must at some point not have been.