A 17-year-old teenager was shot and injured Thursday night in Montreal, according to the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM). He is in critical condition.
Updated yesterday at 10:31 p.m.
Around 6:50 p.m., several calls were made to 911 to report an injured person, near Roy and Rivard streets, in the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough. Upon arriving at the scene, the police found the victim, who was injured in the upper body. The teenager was transported to the hospital, indicated the SPVM.
According to information from the SPVM, one or more suspects fled before the police arrived. There are no arrests at this time.
On the way from The Press around 9 p.m., a few pedestrians stopped to observe the fifteen police cars on the scene. While he was going to play hockey earlier, Charles-Olivier L’Homme says he saw someone lying on the ground, surrounded by three other people “in panic”. “They were screaming, ‘He’s going to die!’ “Says the young man, who says he saw the first police arrive on the scene.
PHOTO SARAH MONGEAU-BIRKETT, THE PRESS
There are no arrests at this time.
Philippe Rochon heard the shooting a few dozen meters from his home.
“I was at home, sitting on my couch, and I heard four times what I believe to be gunshots,” he told The Press in a telephone interview. “I heard people shouting in the street. I got up to look out the window, and that’s when I saw two people running and one person lying in the snow on the side of the street. He must have been 50 yards away. »
“At first he wasn’t moving, then he started moving. I thought maybe he had just fallen. But the world was flipping, he continued. He was on his stomach at first, but the people who came to help him put him on his back. The guy was moaning, but I couldn’t see any injuries. »
Emergency services were quick to arrive on the scene. “It took a minute and a half, two minutes, and 15 police cars showed up. »
Near a daycare
Philippe Rochon said the shooting occurred right in front of a daycare.
There is a park, a daycare. There are still families. You don’t expect that. You never expect that.
Philippe Rochon
Met on the scene, Nicolas Castillo-Caron, a neighbor, said he was not surprised by the event, given that Montreal is a big city. “But it sure is different when it’s at the end of your street,” said the young man. “It’s sad to know that these are young people,” he adds.
PHOTO SARAH MONGEAU-BIRKETT, THE PRESS
A security perimeter was set up at the scene of the shooting.
Lorina Brault claims to have heard nothing from her apartment, located near the stage. “It really stresses me out and it surprises me a lot,” she says. In this area, I know a lot of people. »
A security perimeter has been set up. An investigation is underway to shed light on the events.