Sad news about Louis Adams, a well-respected former nightclub manager who was killed outside a home in Lachine Friday night at 9 p.m. at 2757 Thessereault (he can be seen outside the home on that Street View link).
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Adams, 49, was the father of three young children, including one born one month ago.
Louie - as his name was pronounced - was stabbed to death after fighting a trio of assailants who barged into a home looking for drugs.
Adams was best known as the manager for the now-defunct Backstreet Club, a spacious heavy-metal joint on Mayor near Bleury.
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He was there for the club's glory days when groups like Ice-T (in his metal phase) and Cannibal Corpse performed before the club closed in 1997.
He was not, as some thought, of African heritage, rather he was mixed-black and East Indian from St. Vincent, although he was raised in Montreal and was part of Lachine High's Class of 1982.
He was also a proud and loving father, according to all.
Adams was out for drinks at a local bar and his friends urged him to stick around but he chose instead to leave to go home at around 8:30 p.m. Friday.
Had he stayed his tragic fate might have been altered but it's impossible to say.
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Adams had previous arrests for weed but had not committed any violent crimes, as far as anybody knows.
Police have not made any arrests but they will likely be on the hunt for three English-speaking guys who were responsible for the fatal knife attack.
The attackers were two tall, thin black guys and one man who appeared to be East Indian or Arab, all wearing masks, all aged between 20-35.
Adams came to the scene after an associate phoned him asking for help dealing with the three attackers who were traveling in a purple Dodge. They came to raid the second-storey grow-op, robbing over $1,000 in cash and demanding a cocaine stash.
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Adams arrived and fought the assailants and was stabbed in the back.
He tried to crawl to his home nearby but died of his wounds.
"He was a very nice man and friend. And he was always happy even when stuff was going bad for him but there's a lot of stuff that a lot of people don't know about him," said one of his pals.
Another noted that - surely unrelated - Louis was always vocal in his sense that fellow portly doorman Le Gros Michel of Foufounes Electriques glory, did not die a natural death in 1991.
Adams, 49, was the father of three young children, including one born one month ago.Louie - as his name was pronounced - was stabbed to death after fighting a trio of assailants who barged into a home looking for drugs.
Adams was best known as the manager for the now-defunct Backstreet Club, a spacious heavy-metal joint on Mayor near Bleury.
He was there for the club's glory days when groups like Ice-T (in his metal phase) and Cannibal Corpse performed before the club closed in 1997.He was not, as some thought, of African heritage, rather he was mixed-black and East Indian from St. Vincent, although he was raised in Montreal and was part of Lachine High's Class of 1982.
He was also a proud and loving father, according to all.
Adams was out for drinks at a local bar and his friends urged him to stick around but he chose instead to leave to go home at around 8:30 p.m. Friday.
Had he stayed his tragic fate might have been altered but it's impossible to say.
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| Google Street view snapped him here |
Adams had previous arrests for weed but had not committed any violent crimes, as far as anybody knows.Police have not made any arrests but they will likely be on the hunt for three English-speaking guys who were responsible for the fatal knife attack.
The attackers were two tall, thin black guys and one man who appeared to be East Indian or Arab, all wearing masks, all aged between 20-35.
Adams came to the scene after an associate phoned him asking for help dealing with the three attackers who were traveling in a purple Dodge. They came to raid the second-storey grow-op, robbing over $1,000 in cash and demanding a cocaine stash.
Adams arrived and fought the assailants and was stabbed in the back.He tried to crawl to his home nearby but died of his wounds.
"He was a very nice man and friend. And he was always happy even when stuff was going bad for him but there's a lot of stuff that a lot of people don't know about him," said one of his pals.
Another noted that - surely unrelated - Louis was always vocal in his sense that fellow portly doorman Le Gros Michel of Foufounes Electriques glory, did not die a natural death in 1991.