{"id":784788,"date":"2026-07-06T22:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/784788\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T22:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:43:14","slug":"ceremony-tuesday-for-slain-montreal-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/784788\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceremony Tuesday for slain Montreal police officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Armed Forces says a flyover will take place above the Bell Centre as part of a public commemorative ceremony Tuesday in honour of a Montreal police officer <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/everything-we-know-about-the-cote-des-neiges-shootings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">killed in a shootout in C\u00f4te-des-Neiges<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p>A pair of CH-146\u202fGriffon helicopters will be part of the flypast at 10:15 a.m. and will \u201coperate at altitudes\u202fno\u202fless\u202fthan 500 feet above the highest obstacle on\u00a0their\u00a0route.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe flypast will be conducted in support of a commemorative ceremony honouring members of the Montreal community affected by the tragic events of June 22, 2026,\u201d the CAF said in a news release issued Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The event \u201cmay generate unfamiliar noise,\u201d the military said, adding its flights are \u201cmeticulously planned and closely\u202fmonitored\u202fto ensure public safety, with operations contingent on weather and flying conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The flyover is part of the public ceremony for Const.\u00a0Mohamed Lamine Benredouane, 34, who was killed shortly after police responded to a report of a gunman near Trans Island and de Courtrai Aves. on June 22. The suspected shooter was also killed, as was a bystander, and another police officer and civilian were also shot in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Benredouane leaves behind his partner, who is pregnant with their second child, and their three-year-old son.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/montreal-police-officer-killed-cote-des-neiges-shootings-mohamed-lamine-benredouane-funeral\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">A private funeral was held for Benredouane last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony itself begins at 12:30 p.m., and a full schedule is available on the <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/spvm.qc.ca\/en\/Fiches\/Details\/Public-Commemorative-Ceremony\">SPVM\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s Picks\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadian Armed Forces says a flyover will take place above the Bell Centre as part of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338,227708],"class_list":["post-784788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal","tag-murder-and-homicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784788","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=784788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}