An 18-year-old young man is believed to be behind the murder of a 50-year-old in downtown Montreal last week.
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Moustakima Hassani is now charged with premeditated murder.
The young man, represented by Me Kevin Hill, was present at the Montreal courthouse via video conference on Monday.
Recall that the injured body of Artur Ketikyan was found at around 8:30 a.m. on October 19, after an emergency call “an injured person” in a residential building on Avenue du Musée, very close to the Museum of Fine Arts of Montreal, had reported.
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When rescue workers arrived, they found the victim’s lifeless body in a pool of blood. According to our information, the 55-year-old man was stabbed.
This was a person who was not known in police circles for violent crimes.
Moustakima Hassani, a resident of Longueuil, has not had a criminal record since he came of age.
The case will be heard again in court on December 12th. This murder is the 31st to occur in Montreal this year.
– In collaboration with Jonathan Tremblay and Maxime Deland, Agence QMI
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