Montreal police launched an investigation into the shooting deaths of two people in the city’s Ville-Marie borough early Wednesday.
Police spokesperson Antony Dorelas said authorities were called around 9 a.m. to a residential building on Frontenac Street near Sherbrooke Street.
When officers arrived, they found the bodies of a 70-year-old man and a 71-year-old woman inside an apartment.
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“The situation is being treated as two suspicious deaths,” Dorelas said.
Police said in an update Wednesday that they were killed by gunshots in a “family context,” but did not provide more details. The victims were not publicly identified and police did not specify their relationship, citing the ongoing investigation.
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No arrests have been made.
Investigators were brought in and a safety perimeter was put up at the scene.
— with files from Global’s Felicia Parrillo
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