Two shot dead in Plateau bar
Adding new info up top: the incident is now being called a murder‑suicide and we are told it had no connection to organized crime.
Two men were shot dead in a bar on Mont‑Royal (Street) at Laval (Street) on Friday night. Both Radio‑Canada and TVA are headlining this incident “morts suspectes” and TVA says they were “possiblement atteints par balle” – what are the other possibilities?
I notice that on Saturday morning none of the anglo media have this story – not CBC, CTV, Global, CityNews or the Gazette. Why do we have reporters who sleep in on Saturday morning?
Also, neither of the linked reports names the bar, as usual. God, but journalism can be so dull when every reporter feels a cautious lawyer looking over their shoulder. But there is only one bar at that corner, as Google Maps will show you.
(Also, before people start freaking, the last homicide in Montreal before this was on August 16 – a month and a half ago. We’re not descending into mass violence.)
MarcG 09:09 on 2025-10-04 Permalink
Does Bobby the Greek not count as a homicide?
Nicholas 09:36 on 2025-10-04 Permalink
I immediately guessed which place it was. Fun fact: they have a tattoo parlour at the back.
MarcG 09:38 on 2025-10-04 Permalink
Ah right, Laval ain’t Montreal… confusing me by covering off-island affairs!
Nicholas 09:43 on 2025-10-04 Permalink
Also TVA does name it now in the text, also with a big photo of the name of the bar. R-C has a photo where you can barely make it out.
One interesting bit is both articles say people fled into the street when the police arrive, saying the bodies inside. So were they…hanging out with the bodies for a few minutes? Paying their tab? Actually worried about the cops, because they’re all bikers who don’t want to be checked?
Meezly 10:05 on 2025-10-04 Permalink
I too thought it happened in Laval at first glance, but it’s the bar at the corner of Ave du Mont-Royal and Laval, in the Plateau. My family and I had walked by that very bar last night, only a few hours before.
Kate 10:10 on 2025-10-04 Permalink
Sorry, I have now specified it’s the streets. I tend to write a little too offhand at times.
Kevin 10:47 on 2025-10-04 Permalink
The reporters aren’t sleeping in: they no longer exist. There are fewer journalists working, and fewer with permanent jobs.
Kate 11:36 on 2025-10-04 Permalink
There have to be people doing the primary reporting. I like doing this blog but am nervously watching other news outlets also become secondary passers‑on of news. But there won’t be any news unless somebody goes out and actively collects it.
dwgs 11:51 on 2025-10-04 Permalink
Google Maps description of the bar is “quirky, cash only, with biker merchandise and a tattoo parlour”
Kevin 11:55 on 2025-10-04 Permalink
Kate
I wholeheartedly agree, but the readers have to pay for that.
There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.
Nicholas 15:11 on 2025-10-04 Permalink
CBC is often pulling news from RC, and I assume the translator didn’t come in until the morning. Not just them, but when you only have a handful of reporters left, it doesn’t usually make sense to have one on the night shift.
Kate 18:40 on 2025-10-04 Permalink
Even on Friday and Saturday nights, which are often “mouvementé”?