Crime Beat

The death of an unhoused Innu man whose body was found inside a portable toilet in Montreal highlights the need for additional efforts to combat homelessness, a Quebec coroner said Thursday.

A man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of Simone Mahan in Châteauguay.

Police officers in Quebec are searching several sites in the City of Lévis and the Village of Sainte-Claire, both near Quebec City, as part of the fight against organized crime.

Jury selection is beginning in the trial of a man charged with killing three people with a truck in eastern Quebec.

Quebec provincial police (SQ) are investigating after the body of a 45-year-old woman was found in a home in the City of Chateauguay.

Montreal police (SPVM) has pulled a body from the Saint Lawrence River in the city’s east end.

A 45-year-old Quebec man who stabbed his mother and her neighbour to death has been declared not criminally responsible for the killings due to his mental state.

An elderly man claims Montreal police (SPVM) used excessive force during his arrest in the Plateau. It began because his dog was off leash.

Sherbrooke police arrested a 14-year-old boy over the weekend after he allegedly shot at another man with a pellet gun.

A business on Nuns’ Island, in the borough of Verdun, was the target of a suspected arson attack.

A 76-year-old woman was killed after a large branch fell on her in Côte Saint-Luc.

A 39-year-old man was arrested on Saturday night after another man was stabbed near the Lionel-Groulx metro in Montreal.

A 57-year-old man is in the hospital after he was struck by a vehicle crossing the street in the Saint-Marie neighbourhood of Montreal.

A residence in Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, in the Jacques-Cartier MRC near Quebec City, was shot at twice this week.

Montreal police (SPVM) are investigating after a 16-year-old boy was shot in the upper body and a 15-year-old boy was stabbed in the lower body during an altercation in the Southwest borough Friday night.