A 30-year-old man acquitted last year of the murder of an Ontario Hells man was shot and killed late Saturday evening in Laval.
The victim, Marc Issa El-Khoury, attended the birthday party of a friend’s daughter in a reception room on Boulevard Saint-Martin Est.
Around 11:20 p.m., a hooded suspect approached El-Khoury and opened fire several times in his direction, fatally hitting him.
Despite the resuscitation maneuvers attempted by the emergency services, the death of the man known to the police was noted on the spot.
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As the crime occurred outside the reception hall, no one else was injured.
A vehicle which could, however, have been used by the murder suspect(s) was set on fire two hours after the crime, on Dufresne Street, near Lalonde Street, in the Ville-Marie borough, in Montreal.
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The car was towed and expertise will be carried out to try to find evidence.
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Possible settlement of accounts
Marc Issa El-Khoury was arrested with three alleged accomplices four years ago for the murder of a member of the Hells from the Niagara chapter, the newspaper reported at the time. Toronto Star.
Michael Deabaitua-Schulde, 32, was murdered by a gunshot wound in March 2019 as he left a training center in Mississauga, Ontario.
Michael Deabaitua-Schulde, an Ontario Hells killed by Montreal street gang members in 2019.
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The three other co-defendants, Marckens Vilme, Brandon Reyes and Joseph Pallotta, were convicted of this murder, but only Marc Issa El-Khoury was found not guilty last January.
Tense situation
The situation is currently tense in the world of organized crime in Quebec because violent events have continued in recent weeks, but also since last March.
A little over two weeks ago, kingpin Gregory Woolley was shot and killed in front of his wife and three-day-old child in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. The situation has also been described as “a tipping point” by several police sources interviewed by our Bureau of Investigation.
The crime was committed in the middle of a large parking lot that was crowded at the time of the shooting.
Last week in Quebec, Michel “Doune” Guérin, former leader of the defunct Les Mercenaires motorcycle club, a club associated with the Hells Angels, died after being riddled with bullets outside a home on Avenue des Orioles, in the Charlesbourg area.
A few days later, two suspicious fires targeted two buildings in the space of a quarter of an hour in the Limoilou and Vanier districts; one of them would arise from the new conflict between the Hells Angels and street gangs in the capital.