Four Montreal police officers had quite a scare on October 16 at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, when a man allegedly tried to disarm one of them.
Peter Kerr, a 28-year-old Ontario resident, was in the emergency room of the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal (JGH) under police guard last Sunday. He had been arrested a few hours earlier after refusing to identify himself in the context of a police intervention.
He would then have succeeded in grabbing the service weapon of a patrolman, without however succeeding in seizing it completely.
“The police were screaming for help over the airwaves, but it didn’t work as they had difficulty controlling the particularly aggressive 250-pound man,” says a JGH employee who is not not allowed to speak to the media.
“They then shouted at the hospital staff to call 911, because even the panic button on their radio was not transmitting a signal,” said the same source.
Several charges
According to what we were allowed to learn, specialists at the SPVM believe that the envelope of the building would have prevented the transmission of distress signals.
More than 10 police officers finally came to help the officers in distress.
Kerr appeared the next day at the Montreal Courthouse on various charges, including: attempting to take a peace officer’s weapon in the line of duty, engaging in done on another officer and obstructing the work of the police.
He is due back in court on October 26 for his release investigation.
The man had also been wanted in Ontario since August 19 after failing to appear in court on human trafficking charges, according to a statement from Peel police.
sad memory
In Montreal, the last known incident where an individual tried to disarm a police officer occurred in January 2021.
SPVM police officer Sanjay Vig had seen his life threatened following a routine interception in the Parc-Extension district.
A man named Ali Ngarukiye allegedly disarmed him and fired at him.
Initially, Mamadi Camara had been wrongly accused, then eventually cleared of all charges following a mistake on the person, which had led the former director of the SPVM Sylvain Caron to offer him a public apology.
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