“Carnage” targeting women | Denis Leblanc guilty of murdering his two sisters

Denis Leblanc visibly resented women. That day, he wanted to cause “carnage”. He therefore coldly murdered his two sisters, for no apparent reason, then attempted to kill a neighbor who had rejected him. After two days of deliberations, the jury found him guilty on all counts Thursday afternoon.

The 62-year-old man, who did not present a defense, was found guilty of the first degree murders of his two sisters Diane and Sylvie Leblanc, as well as the attempted murders of his neighbor and two police officers. He will therefore be automatically sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years.

“If there are women passing in the alley, I will shoot the women,” says Denis Leblanc to a neighbor.

It’s October 3, 2020. Denis Leblanc is pumped up. He tells a neighbor that there is going to be “carnage” in the alley. In his apartment on Ontario Street, he placed rifles in several strategic locations. If the police show up, he will shoot them, he threatens. It will target female police officers in particular.

A few minutes before the carnage began, a neighbor tried to convince Denis Leblanc to give him his firearm, but the accused refused. However, the neighbor did not warn the police of the accused’s murderous intentions. “It’s his mother’s [de le faire] ; I am a neighbor, I am not his father,” says the man at the trial.

When Diane and Sylvie Leblanc arrive from the back of the building, a few seconds pass, then Denis Leblanc opens fire. Both women don’t stand a chance. Neighbors partially witness the scene. On a video shown to the jury, we can see the killer lighting a cigarette, then calmly stepping over the bodies to go to the apartment of his next target.

His prey was Lina Petrilli, a neighbor who had previously rejected his advances. At the trial, the woman recounted the horror she experienced that day. Denis Leblanc was in front of his door with his rifle. He broke the window. “He had black black eyes and the face of a super angry guy,” recalled M^me Petrilli. He was in a shooting position “like someone who would hunt,” she described.

Denis Leblanc fired several shots into the apartment, but Lina Petrilli managed to escape. His murderous episode ended with a shootout with the police in the middle of Ontario Street. He was finally neutralized by a police officer.