Montreal murder roundup 2015 - 26 killed: still too many dying

Larez

 Twenty-six murders were committed in Montreal in 2015, about the same as the two years prior.
   The total is almost identical to 2013 and 2014 which saw 27 and 28 murders committed.
   Police count the total as 27 but in fact one of those was committed  in 2010 however the police investigation began after the death was ruled a homicide this year.
   The final total should be around the lowest-recorded since the island became united under a single police force in 1981.
  Here is a roundup of those murders.
  Please note that this data is subject to change as investigations progress.

Suspect

Leduc

1-Helene Leduc,* 62, died in early January after being shot while working as a liquor store clerk at the SAQ outlet off of Highway 20 in Baie D'Urfe on Oct. 18, 2010. After the shooting she suffered paralysis and other health problems. A coroner concluded that her death was directed due to her shooting in a botched robbery by a pair of English-speaking men aged about 25. (The bad news for the killer is that he will be charged with murder if apprehended, the good news for him is that the only witness has died.) *not killed in 2015.

Love Emmanuel Luberesse

Bobby Pellicano

2- Bobby Pellicano, 26, was stabbed to death at a private party at 1121 St. Catherine W. in the early morning of January 25. Pellicano reportedly stopped the party after he noticed that a piece of his jewelry had been stolen, which led to a confrontation with Love-Emmanuel Lubeeisse, 23, who allegedly killed him in the presence of about 40 guests.

Colton St-Pierre Louis, 26

3- Pascal Cronier was stabbed to death at his home 2700 Georges V. in Montreal East during a dispute at 3:30 a.m. on Feb. 11. Colton St. Pierre Louis, 26 was charged with second degree murder.

Bourgeois

4-Sex offender Mario Bourgeois was shot dead on Feb. 11, 2015 at 6:45 a.m. on 15 th Ave. and Belanger. A gun with a silencer was found left near the sidewalk where Bourgeois was found.

Victim Paul Brown

5-Paul Brown, 57, was stabbed to death at his home on Manning

Quannaaluk

 in Verdun on Feb. 12. He had just returned from a visit to the courthouse to deal with sex assault charge dealing with minors. His friend Jessie Quannaaluk, 55, was arrested on Tuesday, Feb. 17, and charged with second-degree murder.

Marina Porco

Julio Porco

6- Julio Porcu, 37,  was stabbed to to death at his home on Jeanne Mance near Van Horne on Feb. 25. His sister Marina Porcu, 36, was charged. The two had reportedly been arguing over an inheritance.








 7-Tilus Saintilus, 20, was shot dead with eight bullets on Everett Street near 2nd avenue in St.Michel on Feb. 26 at about 10:45 p.m. He was reportedly part of the blue-affiliated Robert housing project crew. He was walking back from a corner store when shot. His criminal record was related to attempting to purchase large amounts of alcohol with a fake card.







8-Ngoc Quang Nguyen, 30, was shot in the head his luxury BMW SUV near 4858 Robert street in St. Leonard in the early hours of March 10. Nguyen was a landed immigrant who came to Canada as a child but was put in a foster home at the age of nine. He had a lengthy criminal record and authorities had ordered his deportation from Canada. The murderer was inside the car at the time. It appears to be a professional hit.





 9 -A 51-year-old man was stabbed to death at about 8:30 p.m on April 7 on Pigeon Ave. at a duplex in Montreal North.  A 21-year-old, who also suffered knife wounds, was arrested.

Larez

Letourneau

10-Charlie Cecilia Garcia Larez, 36, who recently moved to Canada from Venezuela,  was found at dead at her home on Goyer Cote des Neiges on May 30. Raynald Letourneau, 46, was sought before being captured and charged with the killing as well as with allegedly having sex with her after death. Letourneau has a long criminal past.



11-A 26-year-old was killed on June 24 at Pine and Clark following a huge fight in a bar. Two suspects were arrested and Waddim Filali, 20, was charged.

Higgins

12-Mother-of-two Samantha Higgins, 22, went missing on her way home on July 7, and was later found dismembered far from the city. Her spouse Nicholas Fontanelli, 22, was charged.

Angutiguluk

Benjamin

13 -Nellie Angutiguluk, 29, was found dead at her home at 7225 de  Nancy in Cote des Neiges on May 18. Kwasi Alfred Benjamin  was charged with first degree murder

Levac

14-Serge Levac, 54, a drug dealer who had once been acquitted of raping a woman with Downs Syndrome, was killed in his drug den on May 28 on Robillard south of St. Catherine. Daisy Lachance, 29, was charged.






15 and 16 -  Kevin Alves Loures, 24 and Guilano Davance, 26, were killed in a brawl on the Main near Prince Arthur on August 2. Jean Francois Felix 30, Marc Evans Jeantilhomme, 23, Stanley Casimir, 23, were among those charged in connection with the incident but a fourth suspect was charged with murder.

17- Serge Ngabo Saninga, 22, was killed on August 23 in a drive-by shooting near Robert and 25th.The victim was misidentified as a gang member. Police believe he was killed by mistake.

18- Donald Cesar, 22, was shot dead in a car at Fortin and Gouin in Montreal North on Sept 4 at about 11 pm

19-Edwidge Jacques, 25, was shot dead on Lacordaire near Crevier at 1:45 a.m. on September 23.

Campellone

20-Marco Claudio Campellone, 24, was shot dead near 8773 Maurice Duplessis near Alexis Carrel in RdP at 8:45 p.m. on Sept. 18.  Campellone had been shot one year earlier in the arm a block away two years earlier nearby.










21  - A 25-year-old man died after being stabbed in LaSalle on Sept. 24 at 5:30 p.m. He was found lying near John F. Kennedy St. and Dollard St.with what turned out to be fatal stab wounds.

22- A 45-year-old man was stabbed to death at Viger Square on September 27. Paul Evans Gordon Gray, 36, was charged while Tamara Chandler, 35, was charged with being an accessory after the fact. The death was likely the result of a drug conflict.

23- a 27-year-old man was shot dead at the famous drug den at 3629 St. Catherine E. near Joliette on Oct. 21 at about 8:30 p.m.

Iancono

23- Domenico Iancono, 56, was found in the trunk of his Mercedes Benz on Desy in Montreal North on Oct. 30 after going missing on Oct. 25.

24-A 38-year-old man was stabbed to death in a Lachine apartment following a dispute with a 42-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman on Sherbrooke St. near 14th on Nov. 7,

Barnes

25- George Berry, in his 30s, was stabbed to death at a home on Maurice in Ile Bizard. Steve Barnes, 32, was charged with second-degree murder.


26-Alexandre Tremblay, 22, was shot to death on Iberville north of Villeray, on Monday Dec. 21 at around 6:15 p.m. Tremblay was part of the Robert housing project faction of the blue street gang. He and his Chilean girlfriend both sported tattoos representing American street gangs.

Tukkiapik

27 -An unidentified man was stabbed to death early on Dec 18 on Ste. Catherine near Fort. Bobby Tukkiapik, 30, was charged with second degree murder.









Here is an unofficial list I compiled of past murder totals in Montreal 1987 - 70, 1988 - 62, 1989 - 103, 1990 - 70, 1991 - 77, 1992 - 76, 1993 - 71, 1994 - 52,  1995 - 59,  1996 - 54, 1997 - 49,  1998 - 41, 1999 - 52, 2000 - 49
2001 - 66, 2002 - 48, 2003 - 41, 2004 - 43, 2005 –35, 2006 –43, 2007 –43, 2008 –29, 2009 - 31
2010 - 37, 2011 - 35, 2012 - 35 2013-27, 2014-28.