{"id":773674,"date":"2026-07-01T16:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773674\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T16:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:52:12","slug":"19-year-old-man-was-shot-wounded-tuesday-night-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773674\/","title":{"rendered":"19-year-old man was shot, wounded Tuesday night in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 19-year-old man suffered \u201csignificant injuries\u201d when he was shot Tuesday night in Montreal, in the borough of Ville-Marie. He should still be saved.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were notified around 10:40 p.m. that a person had been shot near the intersection of Sherbrooke and Montcalm streets, near La Fontaine Park.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to initial information, the victim was on the sidewalk when a suspect fired in his direction,\u201d explained Constable Caroline Ch\u00e8vrefils, who is a spokesperson for the Service de police de la Ville de Montr\u00e9al (SPVM).<\/p>\n<p>Seriously injured in the \u201cupper body\u201d, but conscious, the young man was transported to a hospital. Doctors believe that his life is not threatened.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect fled before police arrived, so no immediate arrests were made. The SPVM has opened an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators and forensic identification technicians were to attend the scene to analyze the crime scene, with the assistance of the canine unit.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses have been met by the police, who will also try to determine if surveillance cameras installed nearby have captured images that could advance their investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Montreal as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=montreal.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782077411_500_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 19-year-old man suffered \u201csignificant injuries\u201d when he was shot Tuesday night in Montreal, in the borough of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-773674","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\/773674","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=773674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}