Triple homicide in Brossard | The Press

(Brossard) A woman and her two children died after being victims of a triple homicide in a residential tower in Brossard, on the South Shore of Montreal, on the night of Saturday to Sunday.

Vincent Larin
The Press

The Longueuil agglomeration police department (SPAL) confirmed that the three victims, aged 38, 5 and 2, were all members of the same family.

The SPAL did not confirm the identity of the victims, but the woman is Synthia Bussières, according to our information. M’s employer^me Bussières, Groupe BC2, confirmed his death and informed employees in an internal memo.

“They were people who couldn’t be quieter, without history or background,” said a neighbor on Sunday morning.

A man arrested at the scene and considered an important witness was still being questioned by the police. We still don’t know his connection to the victims and he had not been charged by mid-afternoon on Sunday.

It was the Longueuil agglomeration fire safety service (SSIAL) that called the police.

The triggering of a fire alarm led the emergency services, around 1 a.m. Sunday morning, to the location of the accommodation in question located on Saint-Laurent Boulevard, near Saint-Charles Street.

All tenants of the tower had to be evacuated urgently, in the middle of the night. On Sunday, many said they had already met the couple and their two children in the hallways of the building.

“I saw the little children [dimanche] by the window. They were given cardiac massages. The police made us enter the conference room, warning us not to look outside, ”said a neighbor, still in shock.

Sprinklers in the apartment

The victims were taken to hospital, where they were pronounced dead. The SPAL investigation is continuing in order to clarify the facts and determine the circumstances.

It was impossible to know immediately if traces of violence were found on the bodies of the victims, so as not to harm the ongoing police investigation.

Note, the apartment where the fire started was equipped with sprinklers, and several neighbors reported seeing water coming down from the floor where the tragedy occurred.

As for the fire, the damage was limited to the apartment in question.

The neighborhood where the events occurred is made up of several similar residential towers, along the seaway.

“Anyone who has information to send us can do so at any time on the Info-Azimut line at 450 646-8500. It can be done anonymously, ”said Agent Boucher, of the SPAL.

The SPAL mobile command post was still there mid-afternoon on Sunday.

Series of feminicides

This is the third suspected feminicide to affect Quebec in about two weeks.

On September 16, Viergemene Toussaint was allegedly killed by her ex-boyfriend, a 36-year-old man. The suspect was arrested the same day by the authorities and taken to the investigation center.

A week earlier, a man used to being held in violent cases was charged with the first-degree murder of his ex-wife. Hosea Puhya allegedly then stabbed Gisèle Itale Betondi, the mother of his three children, to death in a parking lot of a residential building in the borough of LaSalle.

Following a tragedy similar to that which occurred on Sunday in Brossard, coroner Stéphanie Gamache had established that a crisis unit could “without doubt” have been able to avoid the murder by Jonathan Pomares of his two children which occurred in October 2019.

Mr. Pomares committed suicide after killing his children, Élise, 5, and Hugo, 7, in the family residence in the Tétreaultville district. About ten days earlier, he had made suicidal remarks and gestures when the children’s mother had told him of her intention to separate.

With Frederik-Xavier Duhamel, The Press