A midday shooting in Montreal killed three people on Monday, including a police officer, a civilian, and the alleged gunman, triggering rare levels of shock across the Canadian city.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The bloodshed occurred in a partly Jewish neighborhood that includes kosher markets and restaurants, and the civilian who has shot dead has been identified as a member of Montreal’s Jewish community.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But police have declined comment on the shooter’s motive.\u00a0<\/p>\n
French language public broadcaster Radio Canada said the gunman was connected to “incel” ideology — a misogynistic worldview that fueled the man responsible for one of Canada’s most deadly mass killings, a 2018 vehicle-ramming in Toronto that killed 10.<\/p>\n
Incel means “involuntarily celibate,” and is linked to heterosexual men driven to extremism over their apparent inability to find women who want to be their partners.<\/p>\n
Montreal police chief Fady Dagher said Monday’s incident was “a tragedy, a nightmare.”<\/p>\n
Dagher said police received a call about an active shooting in Montreal’s Cote-des-Neiges neighborhood at around 11:30 am (1530 GMT).<\/p>\n
Police responded and a shootout ensued, with the assailant firing from inside a building with a long gun, Dagher told reporters at the scene.<\/p>\n
Frank Vogas told AFP he was buying paint at a shop in the area when the gunfire erupted.<\/p>\n
“I see the police storm in, come in from everywhere, and, they raise their guns,” the 71-year-old said, explaining that officers told people in the shop to keep low to the floor.<\/p>\n
Cote-des-Neiges resident Danny Wilk told AFP that he witnessed the violence unfold.<\/p>\n
“I was on the street near my home when I heard one shot, then several more,” he said, adding: “I tried to take shelter in the nearby pizzeria, and that’s when I saw the shooter, who looked ready to fire his weapon, dressed in military clothing.”<\/p>\n
Wilk said he saw the officer, dead on the ground, before the shooter was taken down by police.<\/p>\n
Dagher confirmed one male officer, later identified as Mohamed Lamine Benredoune, was shot dead.<\/p>\n
Another female officer sustained injuries that were not life threatening.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dagher also confirmed the gunman was dressed in what appeared to be military-style clothing.<\/p>\n
– ‘Avoid speculation’ –<\/p>\n
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he was “horrified” by the violence.<\/p>\n
The location of the shooting raised immediate speculation online that it was another incident of antisemitic violence in Canada, a country that has seen an enormous increase in reported crimes targeting Jews since Israel launched its operation in Gaza following the October 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), a prominent Canadian civil society group, named the slain civilian as Michael Moshe Mizrahi, describing him as “a beloved member of Montreal’s Jewish community.”<\/p>\n
Dagher stressed the investigation had not yet produced any indications as to motive.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s important to be very careful of rumors,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Getzy Markowitz, a rabbi who works in the area, said the shooting took place in a community with multiple Jewish institutions, including educational centers and a food bank.<\/p>\n
“People are asking me if it’s an attack on the Jewish community. I think it would just be completely irresponsible even [to] speak to that at this point, because (all) we know, it was an attack right now on the police,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Quebec Premier Christine Frechette said she was “deeply shaken by the tragic events,” while urging people to “avoid speculation,” about what transpired.<\/p>\n
The area had initially been locked down but officers were began leaving the scene on Monday afternoon, and regular traffic was beginning to resume.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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