Residents reeling after boy, 5, allegedly murdered by mother near Montreal [Video]

Friends and strangers have set up a makeshift memorial outside the home of a five-year-old boy who was found dead yesterday in Coteau-du-lac.

What makes the tragedy worse, they say, is that he was allegedly murdered.

“It’s hard to understand it. It’s hard to wrap my brain around what could have happened and the circumstances that led to that. I’m always interested in the thought process and the circumstances, and I don’t have that here,” said Stephane De Grasse.

Police were called to a home early Wednesday morning, where they found the young boy unresponsive. He was pronounced dead shortly after.

Initially, investigators were treating the boy’s death as suspicious. Later that day, a 29-year-old woman was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. 

Sources told Noovo Info that she is the child’s mother. Any information that could identify the child, including the mother’s name, is protected by a publication ban.

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