{"id":534856,"date":"2026-03-14T01:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T01:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534856\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T01:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T01:05:08","slug":"man-charged-with-killing-store-owner-and-prompting-montreal-transit-police-hunt-had-killed-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534856\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with killing store owner and prompting Montreal transit police hunt had killed before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 hours ago<a class=\"video-base-category-link\" aria-label=\"Content area News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Duration 1:48<\/p>\n<p id=\"MainContentDescription\">Xavier Gellatly, 35, was charged with murder a day after he allegedly killed the owner of a Montreal corner store, leading to a citywide police hunt through the city\u2019s transit network that ended with a dramatic arrest at a mall. We examined his violent and extensive criminal history, including a warning from a parole board in 2016. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 hours agoNewsDuration 1:48 Xavier Gellatly, 35, was charged with murder a day after he allegedly killed the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-534856","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\/534856","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=534856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}