{"id":851013,"date":"2026-08-08T20:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/851013\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:36:11","slug":"man-arrested-after-east-end-montreal-attack-leaves-70-year-old-critically-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/851013\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after east-end Montreal attack leaves 70-year-old critically injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 38-year-old man has been arrested after an attack that left a 70-year-old man in critical condition and injured another man in east-end Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was arrested Friday and taken to an investigation centre for questioning, Jeanne Drouin, a Montreal police spokesperson, said.<\/p>\n<p>He was expected to appear in the Court of Quebec later Saturday to face a charge of aggravated assault.<\/p>\n<p>The 70-year-old was found with severe upper-body injuries on Notre-Dame St. in Mercier\u2013Hochelaga-Maisonneuve at about 5 a.m. Thursday. He was taken to hospital, where he remained in critical condition Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>About 20 minutes later, officers then found a 45-year-old man with upper-body injuries inside a nearby residence. His life was not in danger.<\/p>\n<p>Police established two security perimeters to preserve potential evidence.<\/p>\n<p> They have not disclosed what led to the attack.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s Picks\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 38-year-old man has been arrested after an attack that left a 70-year-old man in critical condition and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,222407,2338],"class_list":["post-851013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime-and-law","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851013","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=851013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}