Police received several calls to 911 at 10:30 a.m. about an incident on the boulevard Métropolitain, near the boulevard Lacordaire.
Manuel Couture, a police spokesman, said a suspect approached the victim and shot him at least once in the upper body near the building before leaving the scene.
A man behind the Lave Auto Express-Eau car wash said the fire sounded like a machine gun.
Police have not identified the victim, but CTV News has learned it was Stephane Dupuis, 51.
The victim was rushed to hospital, with police saying at the time that he was in critical condition.
However, on Tuesday night at 8 pm, they announced that he had died earlier that day and even at the scene of the shooting, but they were waiting to notify his family before making the news public.
Montreal police respond to a shooting near the intersection of Metropolitain and Lacordaire avenues on Tuesday, April 12, 2022. (Cosmo Santamaria / CTV News)
Shortly after the shooting, police found what they believed could be the suspect’s burnt SUV, about 500 meters from the scene. La Presse reported that the victim had links to cyclist gangs and that two years ago another attempt was made to kill him in Laval.
Meanwhile, police have set up a perimeter outside the crime scene as they continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the shooting, which affects local residents.
“I have been here for 11 years and we have never had so much violence before,” one woman told CTV News. “But now I have heard of three shootings in the area in the last six months. It is getting scary.”
Police have not made any arrests as part of the investigation. Dupuis is the sixth homicide victim in the city in 2022.
–With files from Rob Lurie of CTV News
