Montreal police investigate fatal stabbing in Saint-Laurent

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 17, 2025 4:09 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

Police are investigating the decease of a 30-year-old antheral successful Montreal's Saint-Laurent borough connected Thursday morning.

Montreal constabulary spokesperson Caroline Chèvrefils said a 911 telephone was made astatine astir 4:15 a.m., reporting a struggle betwixt 2 men successful a gathering connected Décarie Boulevard, adjacent Beaudet Street.

When officers arrived astatine the scene, they recovered the 30-year-old unconscious connected a sidewalk, Chèvrefils said.

"He was injured to the precocious assemblage with a crisp object," she said. 

The unfortunate was transported to infirmary successful captious condition, wherever helium aboriginal died.

Chèvrefils said a 40-year-old antheral was arrested astatine the country and taken to a detention centre.

Preliminary accusation gathered by constabulary bespeak the 2 men knew each other. The root of the conflict, however, was not yet known.

Chèvrefils said investigators were astatine the country Thursday greeting and officers were looking for imaginable footage from adjacent surveillance cameras. 

The man's decease marks the ninth homicide of 2025 successful Montreal. It comes lone 1 time aft the stabbing decease of a teen successful the city's Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood.