A 41-year-old man was shot Wednesday evening in the Saint-Laurent borough of Montreal.
The man was reportedly hit by several bullets in the upper body around 7:15 p.m., when he was parking his vehicle at the intersection of rue Céline-Marier and chemin du Bois-Franc.
The victim, still in his vehicle, fled and then ended his race against a tree in a residential yard. He was transferred to a hospital center. His state of health is not yet known.
The suspect vehicle fled before the police arrived, said spokesperson for the Montreal City Police Service (SPVM), Caroline Chèvrefils. There are no arrests at this time. The crime scene is protected for investigators and forensic identification technicians and an investigation is underway.
According to our information, the victim is Tiago Correia-Sabino. During the 2010s, Correia-Sabina was considered a heroin trafficker and close to Andrew Scoppa, a clan leader of the Calabrian mafia from Montreal, murdered outside a fitness center in October 2019.
During the Estacade investigation, at the end of which the Sûreté du Québec had arrested Andrew Scoppa for the possession of several dozen kilograms of cocaine, the investigators, who had wiretapped the suspects, had heard several conversations between the head of clan and Correia-Sabino.
They had also observed Correia-Sabino meeting other members of Scoppa’s bodyguard and Arsène Mompoint, a gang leader murdered in Kanesatake in July 2021.