The man who discovered the bodies of the two women killed on Wednesday in Longueuil was present at the courthouse on Thursday and gave a convincing statement to TVA Nouvelles a few minutes before the appearance of a person arrested in connection with the events.
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Serge Monette, a friend of the victims, said he simply returned home yesterday after knocking without receiving an answer.
“I walked through the kitchen and saw eggs on the floor. I said to myself, “I don’t understand, they didn’t pick up the eggs from the floor.” If you make a mess, you’ll usually pick it up again. I thought it was strange.”
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He then went into the bathroom “because I wanted to.” When he left the toilet and headed towards the living room, he found a first victim, Marguerite, the woman in her 60s, lying on the floor.
“I saw magic lying on the ground. She was sluggish. When I saw her on the ground, I shook her a little, but there was no reaction, nothing came,” he explains, still shaken by the events.
“At that moment I said to myself, ‘I need a phone,'” to call for help.
“In my head I said to myself ‘they’re dead’, but suddenly… I went into Marguerite’s room, there I saw her mother, also lying on the floor. »
He tried to wake the woman again, but to no avail.
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“I panicked and said, ‘I need a phone,’ I need to call. The emergency… I need help, I didn’t know what to do.”
As he left the room, he was surprised to see Michael, the son of one of the victims, enter the house.
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Serge Monette alerts him to the situation and asks him if he has a telephone. Michael says no and supports his head with both hands.
“Monette, who did this? “Who did that?” Michael would have said.
“I told him, ‘I don’t know, I just got here,'” the victim’s friend is said to have replied.
Serge Monette then leaves the accommodation and sees three people leaving the building. He asks her for a phone to call 911.
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“Something very serious just happened in the apartment upstairs,” Mr. Monette reportedly told people.
Mr. Monette doesn’t remember seeing any signs of violence, but his memory is vague.
“I’m devastated,” he says before breaking down in tears. “Why did they do that? » he adds, still incomprehensible.
The 30-year-old man suspected of killing two women, aged 67 and 84, in a Longueuil apartment building on Wednesday has been arrested and is due to appear in the coming hours.
The 30-year-old is the son of one of the two victims who was on site when the police arrived and had to be taken to hospital to be treated for nervous shock.
Later that evening he was met by investigators who subsequently arrested him.
The lifeless bodies of the two victims were found at around 11:30 a.m. in a building on Boulevard des Ormeaux near Rue Mousseau.
Many neighbors reported that they had heard women’s screams coming from this apartment building in recent days.
“Obviously it seemed to be bubbling up. It screamed really loudly, but I didn’t know why,” said a neighbor who lives across the street from the two victims’ building.
Support resources such as psychologists and the CLSC are being made available to the shaken neighborhood.