A 16-year-old boy was stabbed Friday night in the parking lot of a public swimming pool in Parc-Extension, Montreal.
Around 6:40 p.m., the police located a teenager injured in the upper body by a sharp object outside the Saint-Roch swimming pool, located near Jarry Park.
“According to initial information, a group of suspects attacked the victim. […] The suspects would have fled, ”said the spokesperson for the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal Marianne Allaire Morin.
The teenager was then transported to a hospital. Still conscious, he was in stable condition.
No arrests have yet been made in this case.
Minor victims
This is at least the fourth teenager to be stabbed in a public place in the metropolitan area in daylight.
On September 22, a 16-year-old boy was stabbed as he left a restaurant located opposite a private school in the Saint-Michel district.
A 14-year-old boy had been injured a week earlier in a stabbing attack as he left his high school in Anjou.
In mid-September, a 13-year-old boy was stabbed in a park near a high school in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Montérégie.