A sixty-year-old has just been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a man who was shot in his car parked in a residential area north of Montreal last summer.
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Armin Lipke, 60, was arrested last night by the Montreal Police Service (SPVM) for the premeditated murder of Giovanni Giamei.
The 45-year-old man, who had a drug history, was shot “between July 24, 2023 and July 26, 2023,” according to the arrest warrant. Lipke will appear in the Montreal courthouse today.
The victim's body was found shortly before 2 a.m. on July 26 by patrol officers under a blanket in a vehicle parked on the edge of Avenue de Paris, not far from the intersection with Rue Fleury.
The SPVM began searching for him after relatives reported that Giovanni Giamei had not returned home as expected.
However, it was said at the time that no neighbors had alerted authorities to gunshots in the hours before the remains were discovered.
background
Armin Lipke is currently awaiting trial at the Saint-Hyacinthe courthouse on charges of identity theft, fraud and possession of false identification documents.
In the early 2000s, Lipke was fined more than $8,000 after dismantling a network of fraudsters pocketing sales tax refunds from Revenu Québec.
The defendant was also in prison several times in the 1990s for robberies and burglaries.
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