Shooting injures one in Montreal North
A man was shot in Montreal North late Tuesday, by someone in a car. Little else has been reported and his life is not in danger.
I notice that an incident like this is reported by TVA under the headline Tentative de meurtre, while other media will simply call it a drive‑by shooting or refer, as La Presse does, to a fusillade.
Can we reasonably assume that a shooting like this is an attempted murder? I suppose, at the very least, if you shoot at people, you don’t care whether someone dies, and if you’re arrested, you may be charged with attempted murder. But a lot of these flying bullets stories – many with no victims at all – seem more to be in the category of warnings or statements than actual targeted killings.
Bert 11:36 on 2022-07-13 Permalink
I can see this sort of both ways. I assume that if you shoot at someone you could be charged with attempted murder. However, since there has been no trial no one is yet guilty of the crime, though an act that apparently would fall in to that category. So, the French version correctly describes the act but if it is intended to assign guilt, it may be a bit off. As to the drive-by shooting, it is factually correct but does not try to assign what may be guilt accusation.
Words mean things.
mare 13:25 on 2022-07-13 Permalink
In my ‘book’ a drive-by shooting involves the firing of a lot of bullets (many miss, or hit innocent or not so innocent bystanders). Sometimes they all miss, because it was meant as a warning and they aimed to high or low.
One or a few well aimed bullets shot from a car? A murder attack, or an attempted murder attack.
(But what do I know, I’ve never even held a gun. I’ve just watched too many violent movies and tv shows, and read too many crime novels.)
dwgs 14:17 on 2022-07-13 Permalink
Pfft, ‘attempted murder’. If I could quote Sideshow Bob,
“I am presently incarcerated, imprisoned for a crime I did not even commit. “Attempted murder,” now honestly, did they ever give anyone a Nobel prize for “attempted chemistry?”