Two dead in collision with tree after back-to-back shootings at vehicles in Rosemont and Plateau
Posted March 28, 2024 8:54 am.
Last Updated April 8, 2024 11:54 am.
A man was injured after two separate shootings took place in Montreal on Thursday morning.
Montreal police (SPVM) investigators are trying to determine whether these shootings, which took place in two different neighbourhoods, are linked.
The first shooting took place on Pie-IX Blvd., in the Rosemont district, when a person in a moving vehicle opened fire in the direction of another vehicle also travelling on Pie-IX.
The driver of the second vehicle, aged 41, was hit in the upper body and was hospitalized.
According to the SPVM, his life is not in danger.
Other bullet holes were found on his vehicle.
A large security perimeter was set up by the police, so that Pie-IX was closed to traffic between Beaubien Street and Rosemont Blvd.
Moments later, more shots were fired from a vehicle, this time in the Plateau-Mont-Royal.
On Saint-Joseph Blvd., at the corner of Henri-Julien Street, the driver of a vehicle contacted the emergency services to report that the rear window of his vehicle had been smashed by gunfire.
The 58-year-old man was not injured.
“The suspect vehicle then fled the scene, so it remains to be determined whether it was the same vehicle that was involved in the Rosemont incident,” said SPVM spokesperson Raphaël Bergeron.
The police are also trying to understand the motives behind these two shootings, which remain unknown.
Fatal vehicle collision
Montreal police continued to have their hands full Thursday morning, after a vehicle collided with a tree not far from the shooting location in Rosemont, reportedly due to a police chase.
Montreal police (SPVM) responded to the scene on Saint-Zotique Street, at the intersection of 20th Avenue in the borough of Villeray-Saint-Michel-Parc-Extension.
This crash was very close to where the shots were fired on Pie-IX Blvd.
According to the SPVM, two men in their twenties were in the vehicle.
The Quebec police watchdog (BEI) confirmed that it has opened an investigation into the crash and has assigned five investigators to the case.
-This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews.
