Shots were fired… where?
Radio-Canada reports that shots were fired at an apartment building on Drummond near Sherbrooke overnight. TVA reports that shots were fired at an apartment building on Claremont near Sherbrooke overnight. Both place the incident in Ville‑Marie, but the Claremont location would be just inside Westmount.
Joey 09:30 on 2025-06-04 Permalink
The west side of Claremont is on the Montreal side of the border with Westmount – most of the apartment buildings on that block are on the west side, so the odds are that the building is just outside Westmount. Regardless, it certainly isn’t in Ville-Marie, as the borough west of Westmount is CDN-NDG…
Anybody know which building was targeted?
Kate 09:33 on 2025-06-04 Permalink
They rarely specify specific addresses in news reports. Sometimes there’s a photo that gives it away, but not this time.
Unless a reader of the blog was a witness and tells us, we won’t know.
(I suspect there was one incident, and one of these reports is in error, but which one?)
dwgs 09:52 on 2025-06-04 Permalink
I walked past both intersections this morning, didn’t notice anything on Claremont but there was a squad car set up on Drummond that was joined by another one that came in at speed with lights flashing. I also saw a couple of cops on foot walking on Sherbrooke and communicating on the radio.
Cannonfire 09:54 on 2025-06-04 Permalink
Kate, I was just driving to McGill and usually park around Drummond. The police had cordoned off a large section of Drummond, between Sherbrooke and Dr. Penfield, and were conducting a search for what I imagine to be any shell casings. I decided to check the blog for any word on what may have happened, and, voilà.
Kate 10:39 on 2025-06-04 Permalink
Live reports! I love it.
Joey: thanks for the border info. Google Maps made it look like both sides of Claremont below Sherbrooke were inside Westmount.
Ian 17:41 on 2025-06-04 Permalink
I know the building that got shot at, it’s one of the few holdovers from the don’t live in NDG south of Sherbrooke rule. It’s nothign near like what it was in the early 90s (crack dealers used to work out of there) but it’s still got the juice, apparently.
Nicholas 22:48 on 2025-06-04 Permalink
Kate, you’re actually partially right. The street and both sidewalks are in Westmount, but the buildings, from the alley just south of Sherbrooke all the way through the train tracks to the hospital, are in NDG. This means street parking and snow clearing are Westmount. In fact, water and electricity are also serviced by Westmount, but billed by Montreal and Hydro Quebec, respectively. There are also some other areas outside Westmount that are serviced by Westmount for electricity or water, such as Greene Avenue near Lionel Groulx metro.
Ian 07:38 on 2025-06-05 Permalink
There’s a simialr weirdness on Hutchison as it borders the Plateau and Outremont between St Joseph and Van Horne. Below St Joe both sides are Plateau. Above, though, the two came to an agreement that both sides of the street and sidewalks would be treated as Plateau for tickets, parking, street cleaning, garbage, recycling, and snow removal. I don’t knwo if they have an entente about street or sidewalk repairs though.
Joey 08:57 on 2025-06-05 Permalink
Yeah, Claremont is more like that stretch of MacDonald that is split between Montreal and Cote-St-Luc – where they have not harmonized parking stickers, etc.