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<\/p>\nShane did not confirm the relationship between all 11 people or whether they were at the scene when Rezayi was killed. He did not specify if Rezayi was considered a suspect in the investigation. <\/p>\n
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The charges include conspiracy to kidnap, conspiracy to commit unlawful confinement, conspiracy to commit assault, wearing a disguise for a criminal purpose, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose and unlawful assembly. <\/p>\n
Shane noted that none of the charges included harm to a person or possession of a firearm, but did not provide any more details on the weapons found. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sorry I couldn\u2019t go as far as you would have wanted, but I hope you understand the parametres of dealing with such a case,\u201d Shane told journalists at the end of the news conference.<\/p>\n
He said the Montreal police investigation focused on the events leading up to Rezayi\u2019s shooting, while the province\u2019s police watchdog will focus on the intervention involving officers.<\/p>\n
The police watchdog has said the only firearm seized at the scene by its investigators in September belonged to the officer who shot Rezayi. The watchdog also said investigators seized a baseball bat, a backpack and ski masks, but no sharp-edged weapons.<\/p>\n
Witnesses told The Canadian Press in September that the group of young people said they were going to shoot a movie in a nearby wooded area prior to the police intervention.<\/p>\n
The Rezayi family filed a lawsuit against the officers involved and the city of Longueuil last December. <\/p>\n
In the lawsuit, the family alleges that Rezayi and five friends, all racialized teenagers, were sitting on a sidewalk looking at their phones when a police car drove toward them at high speed. The family said that video taken by residents in nearby homes showed police shooting at Rezayi within 10 seconds of parking their car on scene.<\/p>\n
Fernando Belton, a lawyer representing the Rezayi family, said in an interview that the Montreal police announcement provides little new information on why the 15-year-old was shot.<\/p>\n
He said he didn\u2019t want to downplay the seriousness of the charges announced Tuesday, but questioned the extensive police resources that appeared to have been put into investigating the youth.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can ask the question of, for each fight \u2014 or possible fight \u2014 that could happen between high school students, do we put as many resources to get to the bottom of it? It\u2019s quite particular,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Belton said the Rezayi family is still waiting for answers about what happened to Nooran, and they hope the police watchdog\u2019s investigation will provide further information.<\/p>\n
\u2014 With files from Morgan Lowrie in Montreal<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 30, 2026.<\/p>\n
Erika Morris, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane did not confirm the relationship between all 11 people or whether they were at the scene when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-772654","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\/772654","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=772654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}