Police arrest one man days after alleged homicide in Laurentians region
Posted Aug 31, 2024 03:23:25 PM.
Last Updated Aug 31, 2024 03:31:10 PM.
MONTREAL — Police have arrested a 47-year-old man related to an alleged homicide in Quebec’s Laurentians region.
Provincial police began investigating the case on Wednesday after receiving reports of suspected gunshots in Saint-Lin-Laurentides around 3:30 p.m.
The victim, a 51-year-old man, died of gunshot wounds in hospital later that day.
Police arrested the suspect in Saint-Lin-Laurentides, a community about 70 kilometres north of Montreal, on Friday evening.
Quebec provincial police spokesperson Élizabeth Marquis-Guy says he is scheduled to appear in court via videoconference on Saturday.
She says the investigation is ongoing.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 31.
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