{"id":524235,"date":"2026-03-09T09:06:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/524235\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T09:06:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:06:52","slug":"montreal-police-investigate-the-suspicious-death-of-a-man-found-downtown-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/524235\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal police investigate the suspicious death of a man found downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL \u2014 A man died Sunday morning in hospital after a passerby found him lying on Sainte-Catherine Street East in downtown Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson Johany Charland says the man was discovered lying on the road near Fafard Street around 4:45 a.m. in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Charland says the death is considered suspicious. <\/p>\n<p>The causes and circumstances of the death are currently unknown. <\/p>\n<p>Charland says forensic technicians are on site collecting evidence to help clarify the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Police said in an earlier news release that officers had noted signs of violence on the upper body of the victim.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 8, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 A man died Sunday morning in hospital after a passerby found him lying on Sainte-Catherine Street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-524235","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\/524235","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=524235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}