A sixty-year-old has just been charged with the first degree murder of a man shot dead in his car parked in a residential area of Montreal North last summer.
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Armin Lipke, 60, was arrested last night by the Montreal Police Service (SPVM) regarding the premeditated murder of Giovanni Giamei.
The 45-year-old man, who had some drug history, was allegedly shot and killed “between July 24, 2023 and July 26, 2023,” according to the arrest warrant. Lipke will appear today at the Montreal courthouse.
The victim’s body was found by patrol officers on July 26 shortly before 2 a.m., under a blanket, inside a vehicle parked on the edge of Avenue de Paris, not far from the intersection of the rue Fleury.
The SPVM began looking for him after relatives reported that Giovanni Giamei had not returned home as planned.
However, no neighbors had alerted authorities about gunshots in the hours before the discovery of the remains, it was reported at the time.
Background
Armin Lipke is currently awaiting trial for identity theft, fraud and possession of false identity documents at the Saint-Hyacinthe courthouse.
In the early 2000s, Lipke was fined more than $8,000 after dismantling a network of fraudsters who pocketed sales tax refunds from Revenu Québec.
The accused also found himself in prison a few times in the 1990s for robbery and break and enter cases.