Officer killed in Montreal shooting was father, with second child on the way
Posted June 23, 2026 10:29 am.
Last Updated June 23, 2026 3:52 pm.
The police officer killed in the line of duty during the shooting in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges borough was a father with a second child on the way.
Mohamed Lamine Benredouane, 34, leaves behind a young child and a pregnant wife, according to the president of the Montreal Police Brotherhood.
Yves Francoeur made those comments while speaking to TVA Nouvelles Tuesday morning.
Benredouane played goalie in the Ligue Amicale Maghrébine de Soccer Montreal.
“Mohamed was serene, very calm, very polite, very composed,” said his friend Ahmed Taalbi, who played soccer with him. “Honestly, I think God must have taken the gentlest one.”
“He was well-liked; no one could speak a mean word to him because, once you got to know him, you couldn’t help but like him,” added Nourredine Guezzane, who also played soccer with Benredouane.
Benredouane’s death marked the first police officer killed in the line of duty in Montreal since 2002.
Benredouane, who had been an SPVM officer since 2021, and Michael Moshe Mizrahi were the victims of Monday morning’s shooting in Montreal. The suspect, a 25-year-old man from Alberta, was killed in a shootout with police.
The attack triggered an active shooter alert and shelter-in-place order that lasted several hours.
Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough mayor Stéphanie Valenzuela was brought to tears talking about Benredouane.
“It was an act of heroism that I can’t highlight further,” she said.
“He’s two years younger than me. He went to school in the neighbourhood and many of my friends, many people in my network knew him personally, so much to the point that this morning when I woke up, on my social media there were flashback pictures of him from high school.”
Officers were called to Côte-des-Neiges around 11:35 a.m. after the report of a gun muzzle sticking out of the window of the Hilton Hotel near Trans Island and De Courtrai avenues.
The officers who arrived on scene were shot at while they were at street level, with the Montreal police chief saying it’s too early to describe the killings as a police ambush.
“I hope they feel that they can be proud,” Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada said of the officers on the scene. “Somebody that was there didn’t think twice about protecting Montrealers, and we can say thank you.”
An online fundraiser for Benredouane’s family raised for than $95,000 in just a few hours.
