On Monday afternoon, shots were fired on the street near a school in Montreal’s Saint-Michel district.
According to our information, a man who was on a public street was attacked by the suspects shortly before 4 p.m. near the intersection of Boulevard Saint-Michel and Rue Villeray, very close to the school. John F. Kennedy.
The target person would not have been injured by the firearm bullets fired in their direction.
To protect any evidence found at the crime scene, a security perimeter has been established in the area.
As a result, Saint-Michel Boulevard will be closed to southbound traffic between Villeray Street and Shaughnessy Boulevard indefinitely.
This new shooting that is shaking the metropolis is the second in just 36 hours.
On Sunday night, around ten shots were fired at a 24-year-old driver as he was driving on Boulevard Maurice-Duplessis in the Rivière-des-Prairies district.
The young man was seriously injured and managed to travel a few kilometers before losing control of his car and mowing down a Hydro-Québec mast and a car parked in the yard of a residential building.
He was taken to hospital where his condition is stable.