{"id":654557,"date":"2026-05-07T21:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/654557\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:33:08","slug":"montreal-police-investigating-after-body-found-in-riviere-des-prairies-in-west-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/654557\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal police investigating after body found in Rivi\u00e8re des Prairies in West Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Montreal police are investigating after a body was discovered near a river&#8217;s shore in the West Island Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say they received a 911 call at around 10:35 a.m. about a body on the shores of the Rivi\u00e8re des Prairies in the \u00cele-Bizard-Sainte-Genevi\u00e8ve borough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The discovery was made near the corner of Gouin Boulevard and Saint-Jean Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say a security perimeter has been set up to allow investigators to analyze the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They do also say, however, that the investigation will be transferred to the coroner&#8217;s office to determine the cause of death and the identity of the deceased.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In late March, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/montreal-police-suspend-18yo-search-9.7146827\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:two young men fell into the Rivi\u00e8re-des-Prairies;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;two young men fell into the Rivi\u00e8re-des-Prairies&quot;}\" class=\"link \">two young men fell into the Rivi\u00e8re-des-Prairies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 17-year-old was quickly rescued. But the 18-year-old, Hassoun Choui, has been missing since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal police are investigating after a body was discovered near a river&#8217;s shore in the West Island Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338,38249,202554,242645,242644],"class_list":["post-654557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-police","tag-riviere-des-prairies","tag-security-perimeter","tag-west-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654557","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=654557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}