An 18-year-old woman was found dead in a Montreal apartment on Tuesday afternoon, and a 20-year-old man was arrested at the scene, police said, in what investigators have confirmed is a homicide.<\/p>\n
Around 12:30 p.m., police discovered a young woman unconscious in an apartment on Everett Street near 19th Avenue, according to Jean-Pierre Brabant, a spokesperson for the Montreal police.<\/p>\n
The woman was likely strangled, The Gazette has learned, as first reported by Le Journal de Montr\u00e9al. Brabant did not comment on this detail.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, following CPR manoeuvres, she was pronounced dead on site yesterday. This is confirming a murder that occurred in this dossier,\u201d Brabant said.<\/p>\n
The investigation has been transferred to the police\u2019s Major Crimes Unit, which was on scene Tuesday with a command post as investigators began analyzing evidence, said Brabant.<\/p>\n
A 20-year-old man was arrested at the apartment and taken to a detention centre, Brabant added. The man is expected to be questioned by investigators.<\/p>\n
It marks the sixth homicide reported in Montreal police territory so far in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old woman was found dead in a Montreal apartment on Tuesday afternoon, and a 20-year-old man was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-574268","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\/574268","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=574268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}