Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the murder of a man who was killed in the Laurentians region of Quebec earlier this week. A Surete du Quebec police car is seen in Montreal, Wednesday, July 22, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
MONTREAL – Police have arrested a 47-year-old man related to an alleged homicide in Quebec’s Laurentians region.
Provincial police began investigating the case on Wednesday after receiving reports of suspected gunshots in Saint-Lin-Laurentides around 3:30 p.m.
The victim, a 51-year-old man, died of gunshot wounds in hospital later that day.
Police arrested the suspect in Saint-Lin-Laurentides, a community about 70 kilometres north of Montreal, on Friday evening.
Quebec provincial police spokesperson Élizabeth Marquis-Guy says he is scheduled to appear in court via videoconference on Saturday.
She says the investigation is ongoing.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 31.
