A 17-year-old teenager became the first murder victim of the year in Montreal, shot by several projectiles from a firearm in the middle of the street, Thursday evening, on the Plateau Mont-Royal.
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Police were scouring the crime scene for clues after a 17-year-old boy was shot on Thursday at the intersection of Roy Est and Rivard streets in the Le Plateau-Mont-Royal borough of Montreal. .
The victim’s name is Amir Benayad.
The crime was carried out two months to the day after the shooting murder of another teenager. Thomas Trudel, 16, was murdered for no apparent reason as he was walking home in the Saint-Michel district.
Several calls were made to 911 Thursday evening, shortly before 7 p.m., to report gunshots at the corner of rue Roy Est and rue Rivard.
It is at this place that a conflict would have broken out between two groups of individuals. At some point, one of the belligerents drew a weapon, before opening fire. According to our information, Amir Benayad was hit by several projectiles in the chest, before collapsing to the ground.
The young man was conscious when the emergency services arrived, while a wave of panic took hold of his friends.
Seriously injured in the upper body, Amir Benayad was rushed to hospital, where he passed away during the evening.
As for the murderer, he fled after the crime and the police were still looking for him Friday morning.
A large security perimeter has been erected in the area to protect the crime scene. Major crime investigators and forensic identification technicians remained on site all night and part of the morning to try to collect evidence and reconstruct the sequence of events.
Amir Benayad is the fourth teenager to be murdered in Montreal in the past 12 months.
On November 14, 16-year-old Thomas Trudel was shot dead in the middle of the street in what looks like a wanton murder.
A month earlier, on October 18, 16-year-old Janai Dopwell-Bailey was stabbed to death near a school on Van Horne Avenue in the Côte-des-Neiges district.
Finally, last February, Meriem Boundaoui, 15, was killed by a bullet in the head while she was in a car, in the Saint-Léonard sector.
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- Listen to Félix Séguin’s column at the microphone of Richard Martineau on QUB radio (from the 4th minute):
Incredulous neighbors
Alerted by the headlights of patrol cars, neighbors approached the scene Thursday, incredulous to see such an event occur in their quiet neighborhood.
“Well let’s see… Here?” said a bewildered man, learning what had happened a few hours earlier.
This tragedy is reminiscent of the three teenagers who lost their lives last year.
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Thomas Trudel, 16, and Meriem Boundaoui, 15, lost their lives to bullets in November and February.
Jannai Dopwell-Bailey, 16, was killed in his high school parking lot in October after being stabbed.