Teenager shot in St-Michel

A 17-year-old was shot early Monday in St-Michel. He’s not expected to become homicide #1 of the year.

I haven’t seen any roundup of homicides in Montreal in 2020, so here goes. We had 25 numbered homicides last year. I’ve been placing them on a map from which you can see there are no obvious patterns – men, women and children, distributed around the island.

Two mothers are accused of killing their young daughters. In April, a woman was arrested after an attack on her daughters that killed one of them, and in July another mother was arrested after a fatal attack on her child. A different kind of family drama in October saw a brother accused of shooting his two sisters, all of them in their 60s.

A woman was found dead in a car on Nuns’ Island in September, and an arrest was announced in December.

A prisoner killed a fellow inmate in Rivière-des-Prairies in late June.

In November, a well liked dépanneur owner in Ahuntsic was stabbed in a robbery, but an arrest was made in that case a few weeks later.

All the other homicides would have back stories, of course, but sometimes the media are not told very much, or can’t reveal much to their readers. But of what we know, these are the ones that I thought notable.