{"id":562373,"date":"2026-03-26T16:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/562373\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:06:16","slug":"salim-touaibi-guilty-in-drive-by-shooting-of-montreal-teen-bouadi-acquitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/562373\/","title":{"rendered":"Salim Touaibi guilty in drive-by shooting of Montreal teen, Bouadi acquitted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774541176_267_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A makeshift memorial is shown during a vigil and protest against gun violence in memory of Meriem Boundaoui in Montreal, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. Boundaoui died in a drive-by shooting last weekend. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Graham Hughes<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMar 26, 2026 | 8:13 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>MONTREAL \u2014 Salim Touaibi has been found guilty of first-degree murder and four counts of attempted murder in the drive-by shooting of a teenager in Montreal in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>His co-accused, Aymane Bouadi, who was inside the car when Touaibi fired the shots, has been acquitted of all charges.<\/p>\n<p>The Superior Court trial heard that Meriem Boundaoui, 15, was sitting in the passenger seat of a Volkswagen Jetta in Montreal\u2019s St-L\u00e9onard borough on Feb. 7, 2021, when a white Mercedes with two men inside pulled up and one of them opened fire, hitting her fatally in the head.<\/p>\n<p>The death of high school student shook Quebec\u2019s Algerian community and prompted wider calls for stronger measures to stop gun violence. Montreal\u2019s mayor and police chief later announced a new police unit targeting gun traffickers in the wake of her death and that of two other teens the same year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A makeshift memorial is shown during a vigil and protest against gun violence in memory of Meriem Boundaoui&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-562373","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\/562373","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=562373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}