A neighborhood woman came to tell the jury Monday morning about the chaos and “fear” she felt in the minutes following the murder of Patricia Sirois in Saint-Raymond in 2021.
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On September 10, 2021 on rue Marlène, Priscille Carrier was enjoying a pleasant evening with relatives around a fire when the group heard four or five shots.
They didn’t pay more attention to it since this kind of detonation is quite “common” at this time of year with small hunting.
But within minutes, a vehicle caught his eye as it approached very quietly, and screams and cries emanated from it.
Mme Carrier, who is a soldier, first believed in a couple’s dispute, then in an unfortunate accident, before gradually discovering the extent of the horror that had just taken place.
She approached and saw what appeared to be another woman outside the vehicle with her arms tucked into the cabin. “Toé, shut your mouth and squeal your camp,” this woman would have told him.
“Automatically, I took my cell phone and then I dialed 911,” said the neighbor, during an emotional testimony at the Quebec courthouse.
“It’s serious”
In his 911 call that was played in court, he is heard saying, in an increasingly worried tone, “stop the tank!”, “the girl is unconscious in the tank” and “there is a baby crying backwards”, in particular.
“There, it’s really serious,” she told the dispatcher.
She smashed the window on the passenger side to gain access to the console and immobilize the vehicle, then went to the driver to help her.
It was Patricia Sirois, coldly shot by her neighbor Martin Lévesque, himself an ex-soldier, while she was driving her car with her two young children in the back.
“The lady was tied up. Everything happened very quickly. I said “ma’am!” wanting to untie her and looking up at her head. Then there, well, automatically, I [ne] I didn’t even untie it… in fact I understood that there was nothing more to do”, dropped Mme Carrier.
From then on, she gave her full attention to the two children, going to join them in the back seat.
“I sat in the middle, facing them, then I put my hand on them and said ‘hi, loves, it’s ok’ and then I comforted them,” Ms.me Carrier.
Arrest
The police arrived and she took the little ones in her arms a little further, but she was not at the end of her troubles.
“I heard cracking in the little wooded area”, located nearby. “There, I felt a little fear […] I felt danger,” she said.
She gave the information to the police, who went to apprehend the suspect.
“I hear a man shouting ‘I surrender, I surrender.’ I hear policemen shouting “lie down, lie down!”, recalls the young woman.
She finally went to take refuge in a citizen’s house.
Martin Lévesque’s trial continues Monday afternoon, with the listening of his interrogation carried out on the night of September 10, 2021 by an investigator from the Sûreté du Québec.