The Sûreté du Québec examines the possibility that the Amqui tragedy defendant intended to attack the students at his former high school before mowing down a dozen of his fellow residents on Route 132.
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Steeve Gagnon was caught by security cameras at Armand Saint Onge School. According to sources consulted by our Bureau of Investigations, he would have driven his van slowly around the school grounds before continuing on to a busier location.
The police have the video files from these cameras and are trying to analyze the images.
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“One thing is for sure, he visited his old school’s yard a few minutes before heading to Boulevard Saint-Benoît Ouest,” says a source.
It also appears that investigators are trying to link the pictures of Gagnon taken at the Monts-et-Marées School Service Center school to his real intent to cause casualties there.
According to the 2022-2023 school calendar, the school was closed on the day of the tragedy. The students were therefore on leave.
The Sûreté du Québec, in charge of the investigation, refuses to confirm this information.
In the days following the tragedy that happened early last week, information about the defendant’s passage in the school area was circulating in the region.
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Many questions remain about the motives of the accused.
Amqui’s alleged killer made utterly rambling, even delusional, comments on social media in the hours leading up to the tragedy.
On his TikTok account, Steeve Gagnon spoke incoherently about various topics including organized crime, “Chinese police stations” and labor unions, trying to make connections between them.
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