A 45-year-old woman was found dead overnight from Monday to Tuesday in a building on 25e avenue, in Pointe-au-Tremble, in the east of Montreal. After killing him, a man of the same age then committed suicide.
“It was always her who shouted: ‘Go away!’ and “I don’t want to see you anymore!” “, testifies to The Press a neighbor who preferred to remain anonymous. Living in an apartment adjacent to that of the victim, on 25e avenue in Pointe-aux-Tremble, he heard an argument in the afternoon on Monday, before the murder.
“Initially, I felt like there was only her. [qui vivait dans ce logement], but from time to time this gentleman came, maintains the neighbor. And from time to time there were big fights, the ceiling was shaking, the walls too. »
“Yesterday morning, I was happy, because I heard him laugh [la victime], so everything was correct, he continues. And yesterday afternoon, there was a big fight. It was always her who shouted: “I don’t want to see you anymore, go away!”. It was always the same words that came back. »
In the middle of the night, when this neighbor wanted to go wash, he found the body of the victim, in the stairwell leading to the laundry room, he explains. “I saw a large dark puddle, so I looked up and saw clothes, a head, an arm, hanging…”
He called 911. He was shaking for nearly three hours. If he hadn’t just renewed his lease, he would be moving out.
“She was not tall, very small, very pretty, always well dressed, with a big smile,” he recalls.
The 40e 2022 murder in Montreal
The first findings of the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) allowed it to affirm that the lady was murdered by the man who later committed suicide.
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The circumstances of the tragedy are being investigated by members of the SPVM’s major crimes squad.
The corpses of the two people, both aged 45, were found lifeless on a staircase in the building located on 25e Avenue, near the intersection of Notre-Dame Street, in a residential area of the Pointe-aux-Trembles district. This is a 12-unit building in the Jardins St-Georges-Turret complex.
Authorities were contacted around midnight Monday night.
As soon as they arrived, the police noted signs of violence on the lady’s body. She became the 40e victim of murder since the beginning of the current year on the territory patrolled by the SPVM.
The circumstances of the tragedy are being investigated by members of the SPVM’s major crimes squad, who began their work by questioning residents of the area. In the meantime, forensic identification technicians have begun to comb through the scene of the tragedy.