Two injured in east end shooting
Two men were injured Monday evening in a shooting in a location in Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve which is so obscure I don’t know what the immediate neighbourhood is called.
Also, someone shot up a Villeray massage parlour early Tuesday, no victims.
Do we think, when businesses or even private residences are shot up in this way, that it’s always a “message” and that the owner or resident always knows who’s done it and why, even if they decline to explain it to police? Because it happens a lot.
DeWolf 11:15 on 2023-03-28 Permalink
Google Maps says that neighbourhood is called Saint-Justin, but I have no idea if that’s a name people actually use or not.
Kate 12:47 on 2023-03-28 Permalink
If you click on the name Saint-Justin, it draws a dotted line around an irregular area which doesn’t include the intersections mentioned in the item, either.
dhomas 12:48 on 2023-03-28 Permalink
I’m pretty sure that’s in Tétraultville.
Kate 15:04 on 2023-03-28 Permalink
When I search Google Maps for Tétreaultville, it zooms in on an oblong segment of streets between Autoroute 25 and Georges‑V, all south of Sherbrooke Street, and not including the location mentioned (“boulevard Lapointe, entre les rues De Grosbois et De Forbin-Janson”) but it labels the area Mercier‑Est.
If you frame Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve on Google Maps you’ll see subsections called Bellerive, Mercier‑Ouest, Mercier‑Est, Saint‑Justin, Longue‑Pointe, Viauville and Hochelaga, but no Tétreaultville and no Maisonneuve. Puzzling.
So it’s quite likely that piece of town is in the unlabelled T‑ville.
MarcG 15:35 on 2023-03-28 Permalink
Google maps is not amazing when it comes to borders like this, probably because they’re not etched in stone anywhere (you’ll see differening info on Wikipedia and the city website, etc). According to this it’s called Dupéré.
Blork 16:19 on 2023-03-28 Permalink
The park adjacent to the shooting is Parc Dupéré. If you Google search on St-Justin, Montreal you get the same kind of highlight as if you search on Tétreaultville, and that includes this shooting area at the bottom end of it.
dhomas 16:28 on 2023-03-28 Permalink
I didn’t even know Lapointe existed North of Sherbrooke, so I may have hastily assumed it was the section of street South of Sherbrooke. Then again, I also wasn’t aware that Tétraultville’s northern border was Sherbrooke. Also, of the mentioned neighbourhoods (Bellerive, Mercier‑Ouest, Mercier‑Est, Saint‑Justin, Longue‑Pointe, Viauville, Hochelaga, Tétreaultville, Maisonneuve, and Dupéré), I’d never heard of Saint-Justin and Dupéré though I’m aware of the rest. There’s a parc Dupéré right next to where the shooting took place, so it tracks.
–Your friendly neighbourhood east-ender