{"id":785987,"date":"2026-07-07T12:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785987\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T12:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:07:12","slug":"funeral-for-officer-killed-in-montreal-shooting-set-for-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785987\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral for officer killed in Montreal shooting set for today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The public memorial for the Montreal police officer killed in a brazen outdoor shooting last month will be held at the Bell Centre today. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">A procession in Mohamed Lamine Benredouane\u2019s honour will start at police headquarters at 10 a.m. ET and make its way to the downtown arena, which can hold as many as 21,000 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Benredouane, 34, was one of the officers who responded to a 911 call about gunshots at a hotel in Montreal\u2019s C\u00f4te-des-Neiges district on June 22. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text mv-16 l-inset text-pb-8\" data-sophi-feature=\"interstitial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/article-funeral-police-montreal-mohamed-lamine-benredouane-shooting\/theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/article-montreal-police-shooting-cote-des-neiges\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Police warned of copycats after officer, civilian and suspect die in Montreal shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Two other people were killed in the ensuing gunfire \u2013 civilian bystander Michel Mizrahi, 68, and the alleged gunman, Seth Scott Hatfield, 25, from Lethbridge, Alta. \u2013 and a second officer was injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">A private ceremony for those close to Benredouane was held at the Islamic Centre of Quebec in Montreal on June 24. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Following the shooting, officials said Benredouane grew up in the neighbourhood that he served and was well-known in the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The public memorial for the Montreal police officer killed in a brazen outdoor shooting last month will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,2338,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-785987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-montreal","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785987","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=785987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}