A suspect armed with a long gun opened fire Monday at a Montreal hotel, killing a police officer before officers returned fire, killing him, police said. A civilian also died but it was not immediately clear who fired that shot.<\/p>\n
Police Chief Fady Dagher said a second officer was seriously injured in the shooting in the city\u2019s Cote-des-Neiges neighbourhood but was in stable condition.<\/p>\n
The chief said it was the first time in 24 years that a Montreal police officer had been killed in the line of duty. \u201cIt\u2019s a very, very sad day. It\u2019s a nightmare,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n
Dagher said someone called emergency services around 11.35am about a person who was sticking a gun out of a window at the Hilton hotel. Police arrived at the scene and were targeted with gunfire, he said. Video showed the shooter was also outside the hotel.<\/p>\n
Police were still trying to determine the suspect\u2019s motive. The bloodshed occurred in a partly Jewish neighbourhood that includes kosher markets and restaurants, and the civilian who has shot dead has been identified as a member of Montreal\u2019s Jewish community.<\/p>\n
Dagher said he did not know who shot the civilian, and stressed the investigation had not yet produced any indications as to motive. \u201cIt\u2019s important to be very careful of rumours,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspect armed with a long gun opened fire Monday at a Montreal hotel, killing a police officer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,351,36377,5737,22645,36378,50,23388,4201,6873,1194],"class_list":["post-99683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-canadian","tag-centre-for-israel-and-jewish-affairs","tag-cija","tag-jewish","tag-kosher-restaurants","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-police","tag-police-officer","tag-shooting","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}