{"id":653177,"date":"2026-06-23T01:33:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T01:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/653177\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T01:33:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T01:33:20","slug":"three-dead-including-police-officer-after-nightmare-montreal-hotel-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/653177\/","title":{"rendered":"Three dead, including police officer, after \u2018nightmare\u2019 Montreal hotel shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The gunman<\/a> who opened fire<\/a> at a Montreal<\/a> hotel on Monday and killed a police officer may have had ties to the misogynistic “incel” movement, though police have not publicly disclosed any information about the attacker\u2019s motive. <\/p>\n

The shooter, who was fatally shot by responding officers, released a \u201cmanifesto against women\u201d whose contents were in keeping with the highly online subculture\u2019s violent, sexist views, Radio Canada reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For the time being, authorities are considering the shooting<\/a> in the city\u2019s C\u00f4te-des-Neiges neighborhood a \u201cdomestic case\u201d rather than a terrorism investigation, according to Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s Domestic Security Minister Ian Lafreni\u00e8re.<\/p>\n

“It was not considered as a possible terrorism attack, but everything has been put in place to make sure it was not linked to something else,” he told reporters on Monday. <\/p>\n

A civilian was also killed during the incident, though investigators have not yet determined by whom. <\/p>\n

\"EmergencyEmergency services received a call at about 11:35 a.m. reporting that a person was pointing a firearm out of a window at a Hilton hotel (Reuters\/Peter McCabe)<\/p>\n

The province\u2019s police watchdog, the Bureau des enqu\u00eates ind\u00e9pendantes, is reviewing the matter, given the civilian death, officials said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTen BEI investigators have been assigned to investigate the circumstances surrounding the intervention,\u201d the agency wrote<\/a> in a statement, originally in French. <\/p>\n

Montreal Police Chief Fady Dagher said a second officer was seriously wounded in the firefight but remains in stable condition. A civilian was also left with minor injuries.<\/p>\n

Dagher noted that it was the first time in 24 years that a Montreal police officer had been killed while on duty. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very, very sad day,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cIt\u2019s a nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy deepest condolences to the family, loved ones, and colleagues of the police officer who died in the line of duty in C\u00f4te-des-Neiges,\u201d Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada said in a statement on Monday, originally in French. \u201cMy thoughts are also with all those affected by this tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice are still hunting for a motive behind the shooting (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n

\u201cMy thoughts are with the victims, their loved ones, the first responders, and the entire community of C\u00f4te\u2011des\u2011Neiges,\u201d Prime Minister Mark Carney added<\/a> on X. \u201cMy gratitude is with our courageous police officers whose heroic dedication protects our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the police chief, emergency services received a call at about 11:35 a.m. reporting that a person was pointing a firearm out of a window at a Hilton<\/a> hotel.<\/p>\n

Police arrived at the scene and were targeted with gunfire, he said. Video showed the shooter was also outside the hotel. <\/p>\n

Police are still trying to determine the suspect\u2019s motive.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe shooting is being considered a domestic case rather than a potential terror threat, and a police watchdog is investigating how a civilian was killed during the incident (Getty)<\/p>\n

Jacob Coutu, who was working in construction near the shooting, told The Associated Press he heard \u201cfour of five gunshots\u201d on Monday morning. A few minutes later, he said police officers started arriving at the scene in large numbers and he heard more gunfire.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw cops getting in a gunfight, getting shot down,\u201d Coutu said. <\/p>\n

He estimates he heard 30 or 40 gunshots.<\/p>\n

Public safety officials issued an emergency alert about an armed and dangerous suspect in the area, asking residents to shelter in place. The alert triggered temporary closures along a major highway, the D\u00e9carie expressway, as well as a temporary shutdown of significant sections of two subway lines.<\/p>\n

\"Monday\u2019sMonday\u2019s shooting marks the first time in 24 years that a Montreal police officer has been killed while in the line of duty (Getty)<\/p>\n

Dagher confirmed the suspect was dead before authorities issued the alert. Authorities eventually lifted the alert shortly after 3 p.m.<\/p>\n

The shooting occurred in an area with a notable population of Lubavitcher Hasidic Jews, though Dagher told reporters he was unaware if one of the victims of the shooting was Jewish.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope they weren\u2019t targeting Jewish people,\u201d Zalman Erdvin, who was praying at a nearby synagogue during the shooting, told The New York Times<\/a>. \u201cThey told us we were in lockdown and we had to stay inside for three hours.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[924,49,18584,50,51,194261,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-653177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime","tag-headlines","tag-law-enforcement","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-picture","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}