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| Gaston Ethier |
Here's the ghost in the machine that has perhaps cursed the locale: on 29 Nov 1979 at 1:30 a.m. Gaston Ethier man walked into Le Fief bar at 294 St. Catherine E.
He screamed at those assembled: "I control the lower city. The Italians, Greeks, there’s nobody that’s going to boss me here, I’m the boss. I’m hot.”
He then pumped four bullets from his Magnum .357 into the crowd .
One of his bullets hit Alain Saint-Pierre, 24, in the midsection. He was killed and another man named Gaston Simon was injured by another bullet.
Ethier - the son of a policeman and part owner of another bar - was trying to display a show of force for his little protection racket.
He had also been recently cited for trying to kill Dr. Rene Croteau at 2539A Belanger E. Not sure why he'd want to do that though.
So on New Year's Eve, his brother Jean Ethier went to his place at 2135 Dollard in Longeuil and found him dead on the ground.
He had been shot about a week earlier in the brain with a .38 bullet.
Police concluded that Gaston Ethier was Fief Bar madman shooter because witness Lise Dumoulin fingered him from a photo lineup and the same clothing and weapons were found at his home.
Not sure if his killer, in turn, was ever apprehended.
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| Alain Saint-Pierre, 24, killed by bullet |
So on New Year's Eve, his brother Jean Ethier went to his place at 2135 Dollard in Longeuil and found him dead on the ground.
He had been shot about a week earlier in the brain with a .38 bullet.
Police concluded that Gaston Ethier was Fief Bar madman shooter because witness Lise Dumoulin fingered him from a photo lineup and the same clothing and weapons were found at his home.
Not sure if his killer, in turn, was ever apprehended.