A 21-year-old man is in custody and a mother is dead after an overnight crime spree involving two carjackings and three different police forces in the Montreal area.
Around 11 p.m. Sunday, Montreal police were called to an Esso gas station at the corner of St-Jean-Baptiste Boulevard and Sherbrooke Street in Pointe-aux-Trembles.
There, they found a 49-year-old woman lying on the ground. She had been at the gas station waiting for her daughter to finish work.
She was shot at least once in her upper body, and transported to hospital in critical condition. She later died.
Police say the man they believe shot her got into her car and drove south on St-Jean-Baptiste.
A few blocks away, at the intersection of Notre-Dame Street, police found the car. It was damaged from a crash and there was no one inside. Witnesses told police they saw a man flee the scene on foot.
Police found a crashed car at the corner of Notre-Dame Street and St-Jean-Baptiste Boulevard. (Dave St-Amant/Radio-Canada)
Soon after, another 911 call came in. The caller told dispatchers an armed man came to his door on de Normandie Street, not far from where the abandoned car was found.
The man demanded he hand over his car keys, then shot him in the lower body and stole the car, police say. The caller wasn't seriously hurt.
Sûreté du Québec officers, notified by Montreal police about the chase, spotted his car exiting from the Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine Tunnel and gave chase, but lost track of it on Highway 132. The car was headed westbound.
Longueuil police patrollers found the car in a ditch near the intersection of Highways 10 and 30 in Brossard, near the Dix30 shopping centre.
Officers found a man in the mall parking lot and arrested him after a brief foot chase. He was brought to a Montreal police operations centre for questioning.
Earlier in the evening, Montreal police officers discovered the body of a man in his 20s at a residence on Ste-Catherine Street near 1st Avenue in Pointe-aux-Trembles, a few blocks away from where the woman was fatally shot.
Longueuil officers found a car in a ditch near where Highways 10 and 30 meet in Brossard. (Dave St-Amant/Radio-Canada)
A significant amount of drugs was also found at the home.
Police say are treating two incidents as separate, but are looking into whether they are connected due to the proximity.
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