Montreal and Quebec police arrested five suspects in connection with three homicides in 2023 and 2024.
Three of the suspects are scheduled to appear in court in Montreal within the day. The other two will be repatriated to the city to appear in court at a later date.
Montreal police (SPVM) said in a news release that the first homicide was in June 2023 in Charlemagne in Quebec’s Lanaudiere region. A 32-year-old man, Noel Garcia-Frias was shot and killed while getting into his Audi on Sainte-Therese Street.
Police believe the victim may have been mistaken for someone else.
In August of the same year, a 28-year-old man was shot and killed leaving a bar on Sainte-Catherine Street West in downtown Montreal.
Then in May of 2024, another man, 27, was shot and killed on Parc Avenue in Montreal’s Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough.
The SPVM arrested two suspects a month later and are searching for Dylan Denis, 27, in connection with the …