Homicide
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Stabbed in an Apartment on Avenue Dupuis on Saturday, Dead by Tuesday Afternoon: Montreal’s 18th Homicide of the Year, and the Man Police Arrested at the Scene Walked Out Without a Charge (Originally Reported August 25, 2026)
This file was first reported on Tuesday, August 25, 2026 by La Presse at 4:54 p.m. and by The Canadian Press via CTV News Montreal at 4:45 p.m., and is not a story that broke today. A 29-year-old man found with significant stab wounds to the upper body in an apartment on avenue Dupuis in…
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A Sudden Death Call at a Downtown Residence, Then an Autopsy That Found Trauma: Toronto Police Reclassify the Death of Satwant ‘Sonny’ Sangha, 41, as the City’s 23rd Homicide of 2026 (August 25, 2026)
Toronto Police disclosed on the evening of Tuesday, August 25, 2026 that the death of Satwant ‘Sonny’ Sangha, 41, of Toronto is being investigated as a homicide. Officers were called to a residence near McGill and Church streets early on Friday, August 21 for what was reported as a sudden death. A post-mortem examination found…
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Windsor Police Made the Arrest, Toronto Laid the Charges: Darriel Thompson Faces Two Counts of Second-Degree Murder and One of Attempt Murder in the 2022 Killings of Minyali Wur, 24, and Chudier Reat, 20 (August 25, 2026)
Toronto Police announced on August 25, 2026 that Darriel Thompson of Mississauga has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempt murder in the January 3, 2022 shooting at 150 Thirtieth Street that killed Minyali Wur, 24, and Chudier Reat, 20, and wounded a woman nearby. Windsor Police located and…
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The Man in the Plaza Video Has a Name: Toronto Police Charge Justin Longshaw, 39, With First-Degree Murder in the Ding Ping Wang Killing, 1,382 Days On (August 25, 2026)
Toronto Police Homicide arrested Justin Longshaw, 39, of Toronto on Monday and charged him with first-degree murder in the November 2022 killing of Ding Ping Wang in a Scarborough plaza parking lot. The file broke open after a witness came forward about a suspicious man on the property, leading investigators to surveillance video from the…
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A Woman From Lévis, a Seventeen-Year-Old, and One Count Each of First-Degree Murder: Véronique Giroux Is Arraigned Over the Henri-Julien Killing and Two Newsrooms Name Two Different Gangs (Originally Reported August 24, 2026)
This file was first reported on Monday, August 24, 2026 by La Presse and Le Journal de Montreal and is not a story that broke today. Veronique Giroux, a woman in her mid-thirties who lives in Levis, and a 17-year-old boy appeared Monday morning at the Montreal courthouse, each charged with the first-degree murder of…
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A Crash on the Wrong Side of the River at One in the Morning, a Body in a Lowertown Apartment by Late Morning: Ottawa Police and the Sûreté du Québec Say the Two Deaths Are Connected (August 22, 2026)
Sûreté du Québec officers responded to a single-vehicle collision east of Highway 50 near Papineauville, Quebec, shortly before 1 a.m. on Saturday, August 22, 2026. A person was found inside the vehicle with injuries police describe as considered suspicious in nature, was taken to hospital and died shortly after. As the SQ investigated it requested…
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Killed at the Wheel on Henri-Julien at a Quarter to Noon: A 17-Year-Old Is Taken Into Custody at the Scene and the Dead Man, 22, Is Placed by Police Sources Inside The New Generation (Reported August 20, 2026)
First reported Thursday, August 20, 2026. Jean-Christophe Desrosiers, 22, a resident of Quebec City, was shot at the wheel of a pickup truck on Henri-Julien Avenue near Carmel Avenue in Montreal’s Plateau-Mont-Royal borough at about 11:45 a.m. He was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries and died. A 17-year-old male was arrested at the scene…
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The Second Person in the Apartment Is the Suspect: SPVM Says a Conjugal Relationship Links the Dead Woman and the Critically Injured Man on 9e Avenue (August 16, 2026)
The SPVM said Sunday that the woman found dead in a Saint-Michel apartment on Saturday afternoon was 44 years old, that the man found beside her with severe upper-body wounds is 51 and is considered a suspect, and that the two were in a conjugal relationship. Both sets of injuries are believed to have been…
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A Wellness Check on 9e Avenue: Woman Dead and Man Fighting for His Life in a Saint-Michel Apartment, SPVM Major Crimes on Scene (August 15, 2026)
Montreal police were called to an apartment on 9e Avenue in Saint-Michel around 1:45 p.m. Saturday to check on someone’s health. Officers found a body and a person with severe upper-body wounds. The SPVM later confirmed the dead person is a woman and the survivor a man, whose life was still being feared for as…