More than 10 months after the murder of a 34-year-old man in downtown Montreal’s Chinatown, police on the other side of Canada have arrested a person for their alleged involvement in the crime.
Dwayne Joseph, 46, who was wanted on a nationwide warrant, was located and then arrested in Vancouver, more than 4,500 km from Montreal.
The suspect was returned to Montreal, where he was scheduled to appear later in the day on Wednesday on charges of premeditated murder against Mohamed Azzeddine Riahi.
The 34-year-old man was stabbed to death on the evening of November 6 near the intersection of Clark and De La Gauchetière streets.
The arrest of Dwayne Joseph is the third arrest in this investigation.
Last March, Marckinson Cherise, 42, was arrested and later charged with first-degree murder.
A month earlier, police handcuffed 31-year-old Mame Abdul Aziz Ndiaye. The latter is currently facing charges of robbery.
The motive for the murder has still not been clarified by authorities. According to reports, an argument broke out between a group of people and at one point one of them pulled out a knife to fatally stab Mohamed Azzeddine Riahi.
The third suspect arrested in this case, Dwayne Joseph, is not his first run-in with the law, having appeared before the judge almost fifty times since the mid-90s.
In 1996, he was sentenced to six years in prison for shooting a woman who was in the entrance of a building in Notre-Dame-de-Grace where drug users were staying.
Then, in 2005, he opened fire on a teenager during a robbery near Fairview Pointe-Claire on Montreal’s West Island.
In recent years he has been convicted of making death threats, possession of a prohibited weapon and drugs.