Abdulla Shaikh killed three individuals within the Montreal space at random inside a 24-hour interval earlier than he was shot useless by police
MONTREAL – A coroner’s inquest heard Monday {that a} man killed two individuals at random in Montreal in August 2022, then travelled to Ontario to go to the Toronto Zoo and Canada’s Wonderland earlier than returning to Quebec to homicide once more.
Police recognized Abdulla Shaikh, 26, from video on the Ontario amusement parks, and receipts from the venues have been present in his automobile, provincial police investigator Alexandra Caron Vadbonecoeur advised the inquest.
Shaikh killed three individuals within the Montreal space at random inside a 24-hour interval earlier than police tracked him down and shot him useless, the inquest heard Monday. Coroner Gehane Kamel is presiding over the inquiry into the murders of Andre Lemieux, Mohamed Belhaj, Alex Levis-Crevier and the police killing of the 26-year-old suspect.
Kamel stated in her opening assertion that the hearings will make clear the deaths and produce suggestions to assist forestall related murders from occurring.
Caron Vadbonecoeur testified that there have been no hyperlinks between Shaikh’s victims. She stated that based on witnesses and video footage, a white Dodge Challenger was within the neighborhood of the place all three individuals have been killed.
Police have stated that inside about one hour in Montreal on Aug. 2, Shaikh fatally shot Lemieux, 64, who was inside a bus shelter and Belhaj, 48, who was strolling to work. About 24 hours later in Laval, Que., simply north of Montreal, he killed 22-year-old Levis-Crevier, who was skateboarding on the road.
Shaikh, who had a historical past of mental-health issues, had no felony file regardless of some brushes with the legislation. Caron Vadbonecoeur stated he was recognized with schizophrenia round 2017 or 2018 and was not taking his treatment as prescribed: one injection each three months. She didn’t say what treatment he had been taking.
Within the lead as much as the killings, Shaikh had been dwelling alone in a Montreal condominium however didn’t have any mates, Caron Vadbonecoeur stated. He was near his mom, who had been texting him on the messaging software WhatsApp across the time of the murders.
Quebec’s mental-health evaluate board dominated in March 2022 that Shaikh, who was below the supervision of a mental-health hospital, posed a “vital threat” to public security however may proceed dwelling in the neighborhood, having proven enchancment over the earlier six months.
Police tracked him to a room at Motel Pierre, in Montreal’s St-Laurent borough, the place officers killed him, allegedly after an change of gunfire at about 7 a.m. on the morning of Aug. 4, 2022.
Caron Vadbonecoeur stated police recovered two weapons linked to Shaikh: one was on the suspect and one other within the Dodge Challenger, which had been parked close to the motel. She stated the suspect had rented the Dodge utilizing a car-sharing software known as Turo.
Caron Vadbonecoeur stated Shaikh had no allow for a weapon.
“What we will say concerning the origin of the weapons is that they have been authorized, he wasn’t allowed to be in possession, however they have been presumably discovered on the black market, or may have been assembled,” Caron Vadbonecoeur stated.
Kamel advised the inquiry {that a} presentation on the weapons can be heard later.
Earlier this month, the province’s prosecutor’s workplace stated no costs can be laid in reference to Shaikh’s loss of life.
The general public hearings will proceed via this week, in addition to over a number of weeks in October
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