About 100 people gathered to pay tribute to Amir Benayad, the 17-year-old who was shot and killed earlier this week, and to denounce gun violence.
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Amir Benayad, 17 years old. The words “sound weird” from the mouth of a teenager of the same age who admits to being scared. It could have been him, his friend, his classmate, he worries. He came to pay tribute to the victim who was shot and killed Thursday evening in the Plateau-Mont-Royal sector.
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PHOTO DOMINICK GRAVEL, THE PRESS
A hundred people paid tribute to Amir Benayad on Sunday in Montreal.
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PHOTO DOMINICK GRAVEL, THE PRESS
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PHOTO DOMINICK GRAVEL, THE PRESS
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PHOTO DOMINICK GRAVEL, THE PRESS
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PHOTO DOMINICK GRAVEL, THE PRESS
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PHOTO DOMINICK GRAVEL, THE PRESS
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PHOTO DOMINICK GRAVEL, THE PRESS
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His death leaves no one indifferent. It saddens parents and upsets young people. Among the crowd gathered at the Plateau-Mont-Royal intersection where Amir Benayad was shot, many have a sense of deja vu. “And that’s it, basically, which is infinitely sad”, explains Rahna Mansour, a mother with shifty eyes. “We really wonder, who is next? My son ? My nephew ? »
This murder, the first to occur in Montreal in 2022, recalls the grim toll of last year, when three Montreal teenagers were killed. Thomas Trudel, 16, was shot in the middle of the street close to his home last November. Janai Dopwell-Bailey, 16, was stabbed to death in October following a dispute. Last February, 15-year-old Meriem Boundaoui was shot in the head while riding in a vehicle in Saint-Léonard.
The investigation by the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) is still ongoing. As is the case for the murders of Meriem Boundaoui and Thomas Trudel, no suspects have been arrested.