A 38-year old man is dead after he was shot in a confrontation with Montreal police.
According to Montreal police spokesperson Daniel Lacoursière, it started at 2:30 p.m. Friday inside the Complexe Guy-Favreau on the corner of René-Lévesque Boulevard and Saint-Urbain Street.
“The suspect assaulted another man with a sharp object, wounding him in the upper body,” said Lacoursière.
The man then fled and was followed by witnesses, who alerted police, Lacoursière said.
A witness outside the Guy-Favreau YMCA told Global News the man has been seen inside the gym several times and appeared to have mental health issues.
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Authorities located the suspect on Viger Street, just behind the Old Brewery Mission, where he “made threatening gestures towards police officers,” Lacoursière said.
“Shots were fired. The suspect was hit at least once in the upper body.”
He was transported to hospital, where he later died of his injuries.
The province’s Bureau of independent investigations (BEI) has taken over the investigation.
A team of nine investigators was deployed Friday to look into the incident.