{"id":481834,"date":"2026-02-18T00:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/481834\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:33:18","slug":"quebec-man-charged-in-killing-of-ex-partner-in-the-monteregie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/481834\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec man charged in killing of ex-partner in the Mont\u00e9r\u00e9gie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec provincial police say a man has been charged in the slaying of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/fatal-fight-rougemont-9.7050885\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">V\u00e9ronic Champagne last month.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Guertin, 41, is charged with second-degree murder and arson in his ex-partner&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Champagne, 40, was found seriously injured inside an apartment that had been set on fire in Rougemont, Que., 50 kilometres east of Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Champagne died in hospital a short time later while Guertin had also sustained significant injuries and was hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>Provincial police say they were unable to question Guertin for a few weeks due to his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Guertin will appear in court in Saint-Hyacinthe, Que., on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-481834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}