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Montreal shooting leaves officer, civilian and suspect dead
BBC • • general
Key Points:
- A police officer was shot dead in Montreal on Monday, marking the first on-duty police death in the city in 24 years; a civilian was also killed and another officer injured during the incident.
- The male suspect, believed to have acted alone, was shot and killed immediately by police, according to Montreal Police Chief Fady Dagher.
- The shooting took place around noon in Côte-des-Neiges, a busy area with a historically large Jewish population; a witness reported seeing a gun protruding from a window before hearing gunfire.
- Quebec's domestic security minister, Ian Lafrenière, stated that the motive behind the shooting is currently unknown.
- An emergency alert was issued and later lifted on the day of the shooting; Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada expressed condolences to the fallen officer's family, friends, and colleagues.
