A 40-year-old man is fighting for his life and a 14-year-old boy is stabbed in multiple unrelated stabbings that kept Montreal police officers busy on a very violent Tuesday.
In all, officers received three separate stabbing calls, as well as a shooting, over a nearly four-hour period.
The first stabbing was reported to police at 4.30pm after an altercation involving several people near the intersection of Galeries d’Anjou Boulevard and Marie G Lajoie Avenue in the Anjou district of city.
Montreal police spokeswoman Véronique Comtois said a 14-year-old boy was stabbed in the upper body with a sharp object during the altercation and was taken to hospital. It is not believed that the boy’s injuries could have endangered his life.
There are no arrests and the investigation is ongoing.
About 15 minutes later, officers were called to another report of a stabbing, this time in the Parc Extensió neighborhood, where police were alerted to a man with a machete. Police allege that the suspect entered a cafe on Jean-Talon Boulevard West, near Wiseman Avenue, and stabbed a man inside.
The victim, a 42-year-old man, was rushed to hospital. His injuries are also not considered life-threatening.
A 29-year-old suspect was arrested shortly after the incident and will meet with investigators.
The investigation is ongoing.
MAN IN CRITICAL CONDITION
A third stabbing, reported to police around 8 p.m., took place on Saint-Marc Street and Maisonneuve West Boulevard. In this case, there was a fight nearby that resulted in the stabbing of a 42-year-old man. He was rushed to hospital in critical condition.
There are no arrests, but the investigation continues.
Bullet holes in the nursery in RDP
Officers remained busy as another serious call arrived at 5:30 p.m., to report a shooting.
Bambino Village Nursery on Andre Ampere Avenue was hit by bullets during a shooting on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. (Cosmo Santamaria / CTV News)
Police found bullet holes in a vehicle and at the window of the Bambino Village daycare center on André Ampère Avenue.
There were no casualties in the shooting, which is still under investigation.