MONTREAL – A man struck by “two bullets to the head” during a Monday-morning shooting in Outremont remained alert and able to talk to paramedics while he was being whisked to a Montreal trauma centre, a spokesperson for Urgences Santé said shortly before noon.
The victim, a 43-year-old man, “is known to police,” Constable Daniel Lacoursière of Montreal police had said earlier.
Lacoursière declined to provide more precise details.
“Obviously,” David Sasson of Urgences Santé said, “there was severe bleeding” when paramedics arrived at the shooting scene on Van Horne Ave., slightly east of Bloomfield Ave.
The response time was “six or seven minutes … (with) no delays on the call whatsoever” following an initial 911 call logged at 8:10 a.m., he added:
The victim “was conscious and alert during the whole (medical) intervention and during transport,” Sasson said.
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“He was talking to the paramedics and explaining to them what happened.”
Sasson said he could not provide a more current update on the man’s condition: “Once we (complete) transport, we don’t do follow-ups. I have no other information except his state while we were present.”
Urgences Santé also took another person to hospital, a woman, Sasson said.
He described her as “in a state of shock – but stable.”
The woman was not struck by any projectile.
Police official Lacoursière said he would not speculate on the genesis of the shooting.
Nor would he say whether the incident could be linked to organized crime.
“The suspect or suspects fled the scene” after the man was shot, he said.
As of 10:30 a.m., Lacoursière said, he could not confirm whether the assailant was wearing a mask or whether operating alone or with accomplices.
“It happened inside a business,” Lacoursière said.
He refused to confirm media reports that the attack took place inside Plomberie Galarneau & Frère, a plumbing concern.
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